Setting park for meade

[p1taylor]

Hi All,

I have a meade rcx400 10" on a wedge loaded ASCOM platform, generic hub and meade lx200gps/r, I want to run with
Maxim 5.12 all seems OK but how do I set park position, I know Ra and
Dec it has to park to clear poof is Ra 4.36.34 and Dec -37.09.05 Meade
AutostarII parks there OK, all help gratefully received.

peter

[AndrewJ]

Gday Peter

You can't park at a given "RA" ( right ascension ),
only a set "HA" (hour angle).
With the Meades, you can manually slew to a set position
and define that as your "Custom Park" position.
After that, ( assuming the ASCOM driver is correctly written
and Maxim uses the std commands),
all that is required is a request to park gets issued,
and it will go there and semi shut down.

Andrew

[p1taylor]

Hi Andrew,
Sorry should have bean roof not poof, scope has to park with objective lens
facing south and optical tub level

peter