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Originally Posted by NJB
Hi Gary. Thank you for your time. What happened is that after connecting via the SkyVoyager program, I looked at the Location setting on the Argo Navis. My default location is set as Hillcrest, Qld, and should be set to 27 deg S and 153 deg E (with appropriate ' and "). But it seems when I connect, the latitude is changed insignificantly (according to the value the SkyVoyager program was using), and the longitude changed to 206 deg E (and some ' and "), which is not what the program says in its settings. (The program should be picking up its data from the location services of the iPhone.)
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Hi Noel,
Thanks for this information.
As I mentioned, it is rare for a planetarium program to use the location setting
commands in the protocol, but this one apparently does.
The Meade protocol has commands for reading the lat/long and for setting the
lat/long. The convention that Meade use for longitude is that East longitudes have
negative values. For the command that fetches the longitude, I see that we handle
it correctly with regards the East is negative convention. However, at a glance
it appears we are not handling the setting of longitude case correctly with regards
the sign and studying the source confirms this.
I will drop you an email tomorrow with details of a possible fix.
Could you also please tell me whether the program supports more than one
type of Meade telescope and if so, what the choices are?
Best Regards
Gary Kopff
Managing Director
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