Hi Ed, Hi Geoff,
Great to hear you are excited about TPAS. Thanks for your support.
2005 marks the end of an era. No longer are geometric, flexure and harmonic
errors within the mount a limitation for hand-held digital pointing systems.
TPAS can analyze and compensate for them.
When you consider how these various terms can all be entangled, the job TPAS
does of untangling them is the nearest thing to magic.
Suffice to say, after many years of research and development, we created some very powerful
algorithms and systems for handling what is almost an intractable problem.
TPAS works with all mounts types, both Alt/Az (Dobs) and equatorials.
To boot, if you have an equatorial, it can even compute your polar misalignment
and then assist you in refining your alignment. Much faster than a drift test and
unlike a drift test, it takes into account the other errors within your mount.
And as you know, we are providing Version 2.0.0 including the in-built TPAS
as a gift from us to all our customers. Our way of thanking you for your support.
Highly suggest you read the sections in the User Manual on SETUP MNT
ERRORS on page 115 to get an overview of TPAS. I'll also be posting tips,
answers and the sort over on the Argo Navis Yahoo Group.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/argo_navis_dtc/
I am sure both of you will be pleased to know that the most powerful telescope computers
with the most powerful and innovative features continue to be developed right here
in Australia.
Best Regards
Gary Kopff
Wildcard Innovations Pty. Ltd.