[APBeta] APv2b25 and Guide Star script

Paul Rodman paul at ilanga.com
Fri Mar 6 21:16:48 PST 2009


On Mar 6, 2009, at 06:43 PM, Bruce Pipes wrote:

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

All done.

> 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?

It can, and it has been. Download away.

Paul R.



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