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Lesvedome control
Even though overcast I went up last night to work on co-ordinating dome rotation to the mount.
I finally have things at Lonely Spoon Observatory mostly working:
I load CdC and NINA, linking the mount and dome control to NINA and the mount to CdC
Re-set the home position if necessary
Select something from CdC and tell the mount to swing to it.
sit back, watch the scope slew and then, 4 seconds later, the dome follows
Bliss! Still some fine tuning but it is putting the scope clearly into the slot. It also gives a little move every 4 minutes or so to keep things aligned.
It turned out (for the Lesvedome fans here) that I had to keep the speed down because I was losing counts on the encoder. Also, I ended up putting an arbitrary number in as the dome diameter and making lots of test rotations to real targets.
Tedious but it worked! Now to try it on some real stuff, like 3 point alignment and actual imaging.
This has been a 4 year trip for me, finally getting some closure on it.
Neville
Chief Robot Controller
LSO
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