From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: August 1, 2005 1:27:38 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Willie Strickland <willie@igc.org>

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Finnish Your Beta Testing


Hi Willie;


A few things.


1) Did you select "Celestron NextStar"  for the interface before using it or not?


2) It may not work with Celestron scopes that expect the Binary ASCII interface - but a GPS Celestron scope does use ASCII.


My guess is that the Celestron scope got a series of command it didn't understand and rather than ignoring them, it's microprocessor puked and would need to be manually re-set it.


Also, do you have access to the scope and  time to try out some things during the day time? You don't need to look at at objects to test out the basic controls for moving the scope around.


TTYL..


Milton J. Aupperle

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On 1-Aug-05, at 12:55 PM, Willie Strickland wrote:


At 5:35 PM +0000 8/1/05, Milton Aupperle wrote:


>If anyone has had any problems or found issues with Astro IIDC 2.02 Beta 5


>I'd like to know about it soonest. I'm hoping to finnish the

>documentation off in the next 10 days.

>

>One area that really needs some testing (hint hint Willie S.) is the

>Celestron Scope Control, which still remains untested.


Milton,


I tried it last night for the second time.  Both times I didnt get

any response from the scope at all.  Not only that, but after trying

with Astro IIDC, I couldnt get the scope to connect to either

Astroplanner or Equinox.  I tested the connection to each before

trying Astro IIDC to make sure the cables, etc were good.  I am using

a Nexstar 8GPS.  Is that the problem?  I know for Equinox &

Astroplanner, they have separate settings for the GPS version and the

previous version.


Each of these nights I tried restarting my laptop and still could not

get the scope to function with any software after the try with Astro

IIDC.  The only thing that would re-establish communication was to

turn the scope off and then realign it and start over.  I suspect

some command is getting sent to the scope from Astro IIDC that causes

it to hang.  Just a guess though.

-- 

Willie Strickland

willie@igc.org