Hi Bob, Thanks for your reply. The workaround which you suggest is what I allready apply. It is, indeed, effective. But as a lazy astronomer, I allways want more and searched a way to shun the POINT and SYNCH step ! Keeping the dec clutch fastened would have allowed a direct GO TO at next startup. I thought a external command could perform the any-current-position- park which the Autostar doesn't support... If it is not posible, so bad, but it was not a matter of life and death ;o) Thanks again and king regards from France Michel
--- In [email protected], "Bob Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michel, > Custom park positions are feature only supported in the LX200 GPS > scopes. The LX90 or any Autostar 1st generation scopes currently have > no custom park feature. Possibly Meade may see fit to implement this > in a future update. You can always request this buy a note to engineer > (at)meade.com with something like "enhancements to autostar version > 4.2Ed" or whatever your current version is in the subject line so > they will know where to route the email. If you are well polar > aligned you have an easy workaround for this. Unlatch the Dec clutch > before the Park command is issued so the ccd is not slammed into the > base. On next startup goto a bright star and manual position the Dec > with the star and you are aligned. Meade treats the celestial sphere > as a rigid sphere so if your polar alignment is good you only need to > resync the sphere. Doing a two star alignment is moot if you have > good polar alignment. > Bob > > > --- In [email protected], "albireo155" > <albireo155@> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > I currently use a LX90 controlled through "Cartes du Ciel" via the > > Meade plugin. > > Now I have one question : the PARK command, either operated from the > > Autostar or from the Meade plug-in, performs parking in the regular > > position (I mean RA = south and dec. = 90°). This position is not > > convenient in my case due to the CCD attached on a reducer at the > > bottom of the scope. > > I know that some ASCOM commands should allow parking the scope in a > > different (actually any current) position. > > Having myself no skill in programming, I wonder how it may be > possible > > to write an ASCOM standard compliant application which would allow > > parking in such a custom position ? > > It seems a .wsf, .vbs ou .js language script could do that ? > > How would it look like ? > > Any idea and/or help would be appreciated ;o] (I first posted this > > question on ASCOM-talk group, but got no reply) > > Greetings > > Michel > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/1.XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
