[APBeta] APv2b25 and Guide Star script

[Bruce Pipes]

If you are reading this before you finished your pizza, beer and  
"Australia", STOP AND READ IT LATER!

The new Guide Star script sort of works. The problem is that it gets  
the imager reticle from the resources, but not the guider reticle,  
which is what you really want. I think the way to fix this is to have  
the script include the guider reticle if the "Guide Sensor Name" box  
is checked in the imager resource. Since you would never be looking  
for guide stars for the imager chip, there is no reason to include the  
imager chip in the "Reticle" drop-down menu. For example, in my case  
the imager is an SBIG ST-2000XM with the TC-237 guide chip, so the  
drop-down menu need only contain one entry, SBIG ST-2000XM/XCM/TC237,  
or something like that. That is, it gets the camera model from the  
image name and the guide chip from the "Guide Sensor Name" check box.  
It then would only look for guide stars in the annulus defined by  
rotating the guider reticle. Can the script be modified to do this?

Thanks,
Bruce



On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:59 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:

> I just uploaded a new version of the script that should work with  
> imager resources.
>
> Now for pizza, beer and "Australia".
>
> Paul R.
>
> On Mar 6, 2009, at 05:52 PM, Bruce Pipes wrote:
>
>> Oh, I get it now. I misunderstood your suggestion. Yes, when I put  
>> my imager in as a custom reticle, the Guide Star script seems to  
>> work. Sorry.
>>
>> However, I still think it would be more convenient for Guide Star  
>> to use imager resources, since the only reason you would run it is  
>> if your are using an imager, I think.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 6, 2009, at 05:16 PM, Bruce Pipes wrote:
>>>
>>>> Paul,
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded APv2b25 and the latest versions of the scripts,  
>>>> Guide Stars and Transfer Objects. Transfer Objects seems to work  
>>>> fine, but I ran into a problem with Guide Stars. When I run Guide  
>>>> Stars, the window where one chooses the catalogue, reticle,  
>>>> scope, etc comes up fine (it didn't before), but the Reticles  
>>>> drop down menu has only one entry, namely, "Use distances below".  
>>>> Even though I have imager resources defined, they do not show up  
>>>> in the drop-down menu.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a bug or is there something I am not doing correctly?
>>>
>>> Dunno. Works for me:
>>>
>>> <001.jpg>
>>>
>>>
>>> Click the reticle button at the bottom-right of the FoV chart and  
>>> make sure you have reticles defined. Note that the script only  
>>> looks at custom reticles, not Imager resources. I would need to  
>>> tweak the script to handle Imager resources. I take it that's what  
>>> you want, right?
>>>
>>> Paul R.
>>>
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