Re: [ATM] Telescope Emulation Software

[clnoble@email.arizona.edu]

Gil,

Try out Voyager 3.  http://www.carinasoft.com/   I use this program just as you
describe on a 16" classical cassegraine on a German Equatorial mount.  I do use
it on a macintosh however, but I think the company has began offering a PC
version of it.  It's fun watching the crosshairs zoom around the monitor as I
manually move the telescope around.  It's great for finding dim objects in the
middle of the city.  Check and make sure that your encoders are compatible with
the ones they list.

Colton
Tucson, Az




Quoting Gil Gagne <gilgagne@bellsouth.net>:

> Does anyone know of any software to run on a PC that accepts Alt-AZ
> coordinates or encoder pulses from my dob telescope and scrolls thru a
> map or representation of the sky. Once calibrated, this system would act
> like a finder scope to help locate stars and deep sky objects on the
> monitor that are hard to find thru the limited field of view of an
> optical finder. I've searched through several Sky & Tel and Astronomy
> issues for such software without much success.
> Gil
> Port Orange, FL
>
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