TSX - Slew to RA/Dec?

[pvelez (Pete)]

Last night I was trying to image some standard Landbolt photometric stars. I have the RA and Dec in J2000.

Looking at The Sky X, I found that there is a function to slew to given co-ordinates. However, TSX will send the scope to the current RA and Dec, not the J2000 co-ordinates.

So my question - is there some funky function in TSX that will convert back to J2000 epoch or otherwise slew to J2000 co-ordinates?

Pete

[frolinmod]

Yes, the same dialog that lets you slew to a specific RA/DEC or ALT/AZ also lets you specify the epoch. TheskyX->Orientation->Navigate->Enter coordinates->Epoch and change "Current" to "J2000." Of course, that's manual entry. I'm not sure how to do it from a script.

[pvelez (Pete)]

D'oh!

thanks for that Ernie

Pete