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Re: [ATM] Anyone using Labview for telescope control?
Don - I'm glad to hear that my impressions of Labview
match your experience.
My son showed me how he debugged a complicated
application he created ("wrote" seems to miss the true
graphic nature of the program). He put little boxes
next to each segment of the program so he could watch
the intermediate values change as the program ran -
took him all of a minute of so to set it up and then
take it out after finding the problem. Amazing. He
has built up incredible applications in a fraction of
the time traditional programming would take (to
control spectrograph and handle the data they
produce).
Labview also seems to run very fast.
BTW - My first computer class included punch cards,
and I've tried to tell the story of what it was like
back then to young folks and I've been amused at the
lack of interest my son and his friends have in my
dinosaur computer stories. Oh well. :) I suppose
30 years from now they will have the same problem
telling computer stories to their future audience.
Labview is so easy to do - makes me interested in
doing some programing again.
--- Don Clement <don_clement@charter.net> wrote:
> IMO, N.I. all-graphical LabView would be the fastest
> and best way to control
> a telescope and integrate focusing, guiding, and
> camera control (also image
> processing). LabView is built on a C base, and is
> way easier get useable
> "code" up a running than any other type of
> non-graphical language.
> BTW I spent this summer learning G-code and
> mastering 3D CAM software to
> run a new CNC mill. G-code is very primitive,
> reminds me of when I was
> coding Blat IV Fortran on 80 column punch cards 35
> years ago. LabView
> "coding" is not like programming in the traditional
> sense. LabView is more
> like wiring a circuit. see:
>
http://www.ni.com/labview/whatis/intuitive_graphical.htm
>
> Don Clement
> Running Springs, California
>
>
>
>
> > My son has become the "go to guy" at his physics
> lab
> > at UCSB for Labview application programming. He
> was
> > showing me the program - it is incredible!
> >
> > I did a quick search and found that NASA and
> others
> > are using it for telescope control. (see
> >
> >
>
http://digital.ni.com/worldwide/southafrica.nsf/web/all/065F8FD28301F5DF86256F3A003ED952?OpenDocument&node=200186_us
> >
> > It is mentioned a few times in the archives (most
> > recently by Don). Has anyone used it for control
> of
> > their mounts? It would seem to be a possible way
> to
> > integrate mount controls with guiding and camera
> > control. Unfortunately the program is very pricey
> > unless you can swing an educational/student
> license.
> >
> > - Gil
> >
> >
> >
>
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