From: Willie Strickland <willie@igc.org>

Date: August 1, 2005 12:55:29 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Finnish Your Beta Testing

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.

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Willie Strickland

willie@igc.org