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Subject: LX 200 Virtual Smart Drive ?
From: Amtsgymnasiet,Sonderborg,DK,AGE
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Tue Feb 20 06:48:00 1996

LX200 QBASIC RA readout commands ?


The lx200 has - as you all know - a command, allowing to control the telescope
from a connected PC.

The new 16" allows readout of worm wheel position, as well as pc based editing
of the usually fixed PEC.

I would thus like to map the periodic error to high precision, across a large
number of worm cycles.

Here I look for a special Qbasic/LX200 command.

Anyone knowing if there is a command, which could tell what RA
tracking-correction input has been given by the autoguider / or say the handpad
?

Reading out the RA position to high precision would do it, last year somebody
wrote a similar program, checking the drive rate.

However, the commands given in the manual only displays the RA position at
hh mm.m accuracy.

Best greetings,

Mogens.