I tried that last night and it worked relatively well. As always we had clouds moving in and we have the moon in waning gibbous, so I did not got my best go to (the

Sorry Dan, I'm afraid you're wrong. I googled a lot and looked on renishaws homepage, and I can now answer my first question: High-resolution encoders have initially an analog sine- / cosine-wave

Hi Paul, In order to goto a planet, your controller must be accurate (an OffsetInit) pointed at the sky. Whether day time or night time, you can use SkyView in SiTech to goto a planet. You have to

Hi Ralf, There are two main types of encoders used with SiTech controllers. They are A-B (quadrature) encoders common for the Servo I and Servo II controllers. These are NOT sign wave, they ARE

Next question: You recommend Renishaw 26 bit absolute encoders in Cascade Mode. This will recognize and compensate backlash? It sounds so: "Cascade Mode: You can ONLY use this mode if you have High

thanks Alvaro - what's the process for a goto to a planet? best wishes Paul

Hi Don, the first question is how the interpolation is done. I don't know exactly, but I thought that the encoder produces two analog sine-wave 90°-phase-shifted signals. This analog signal can then

Great, thanks On 4/4/2020 6:30 PM, Don W wrote:

SiTech uses the Soft00Cmt.txt data. You can download it directly in SkyView by clicking on "Orbits" menu. That data will be downloaded into the SiTech database folder. Then go to the SkyView

BTW: I have a question. Does Skyview uses the MPC format to read the comet ephemerids? Thanks, Alvaro On 4/4/2020 3:30 PM, Alvaro

yes, you can, I have done it with Jupiter and Saturn. I had even done a temporary alignment with venus to get me going (i don't recommend it all the time), because there

Hi Don & Dan, Is it possible to goto a planet using sitech? I guess if I knew its position in the sky that would be the obvious way to do it, just wondered if there's any other way via a catalog

Yes, I am going to try that. Now I am trying to figure out how to download the file from the web. The only weird thing is that the data files in the SiTech\SitechExe\Database\ are

Thank you for the info, and that sounds reasonable. I am going to try download the comet database. and see if I can use Skyview. I am bit worry that I am using old data, but

When using the SKYX you also need to push the button Set Track Rates on the Telescope tab to get the correct tracking rate for a comet or an asteroid. I'd stick with the SkyView technique -

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 11:21 AM, @radinkel wrote: RESM20 100mm dia + VIONIC 25nm Hi Ralf, Well, 15744 lines gives a resolution of 82.3 arc-sec. If your backlash is less than 82 arc-sec I don't know

Hi Alvaro, The easy way in SiTech is to download the comet database into SkyView and then tell Skyview to go to the comet. The Skyview dialog will offer to set the tracking rates for the comet (each

H Ralf, Well, I warned you that Parking and Unparking was changed, and needed to be reset. As for the meridian flip settings, in SiTech you can set them to any setting you want. However NOTE:

Shocking, first slew after update and nearly a total crash. Telescope lost complety the orientation after unpark. After one offset init everything seems to work again. Set a new park position and

Hi Don, updated now to .95A. Saved all my old files and made screenshots from the settings ;) Can you please have a look on the meridianflip-thing... MF on tracking is made from SGP Not sure I need