2022-11-17, 10:36 PM
I believe the control system is home-grown. Dave Lane built it (along with the planetarium software The Earth Centred Universe). I too have wondered about this... I even considered writing my own GUI front-end to generate requests. As you have observed, it is a very basic command set. And it is matured, i.e. been in use for a while.
It is also used with his home set-up, the Abbey RIdge Observatory (ARO) which I have access to. And the Mini-Ralph Observatory (MRO) with a wide-field refractor in it's own little weather-resistant structure.
I could talk to Dave about this... He's official retired from the university now, as an aside.
Or we could all meet up!
I thought there was a way to specify RA-Dec coords directly and not be necessarily adding something... but I could be wrong.
It would ROCK if SkyTools could generate my complete mosaic command set requests.
It is also used with his home set-up, the Abbey RIdge Observatory (ARO) which I have access to. And the Mini-Ralph Observatory (MRO) with a wide-field refractor in it's own little weather-resistant structure.
I could talk to Dave about this... He's official retired from the university now, as an aside.
Or we could all meet up!
I thought there was a way to specify RA-Dec coords directly and not be necessarily adding something... but I could be wrong.
It would ROCK if SkyTools could generate my complete mosaic command set requests.
cheers,
Blake
Blake