From: "milton_aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: July 8, 2012 12:19:38 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: one from July 7th [1 Attachment]

Hi Stephen;

Yes and for Lunar too. However the calibration part is the "sticky wicket" for solar.

A few years back I had contemplated adding the ability to enter the calibration parameters (likely via an AppleScript command) that Astro IIDC measures itself and includes in the Guide log.

As long as you changed nothing (and I mean pretty much nothing except maybe focus or filter), you could calibrate on a bright star at night or an isolated sun spot (you would need to have the Declination entered too) and then re-enter those parameters so that you would not need to re-calibrate. You would still need to enter the target objects Declination (to the nearest degree would be fine) for this to work , but this would save some time and solve the calibration limitations. It would also make automating the guide process better too.

Since I am planning on doing some changes to the guiding code for the inversion check box (this allows the image that the guide code processes to be inverted, without inverting the source image), I may look into adding this too.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen W. Ramsden" <sramsden@...> wrote:

so, you're saying there is a solar guiding routine in ASTRO IIDC already?

Stephen W. Ramsden