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Old 15-06-2015, 04:50 AM
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dtrewren (Dave)
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Evening Jeremy,

Excellent, very pleased you got everything working with the MoonLite - a very nice piece of kit beautifully made.

You could use SharpSky as a DIY rotator after all it is essentially a computer controller motor. The hardware could stay basically as it is. However, at the moment the driver exposes itself as an ASCOM focuser not a rotator so the driver would need re-work to expose itself as a rotator. Currently, the SharpSky focuser driver is only designed to operate as a single instance and having two focuser drivers operating simultaneously would cause some software confusion. So the options are to make a simple mod to the driver to allow two driver instances to operate together or re-work the driver more extensively to expose itself as a proper rotator instance.

Hope that makes sense ?

Cheers,

Dave

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