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Hello to everybody,
I'll suggest to very the thread "Arduino" on the script section of this Forum. It deals with the way it was dealt with from the days of AA5.

Regards.

Alessandro

Hi Frank,
I would like to enclose the file file with the whole code for Arduino so you can have the full picture.

Alessandro

Hi Frank, the part of the Arduino sketch to receive "ing1" and "ing2" is as follows: QUOTE // ****************** // **** INGRESSI **** // ****************** fed1 = digitalRead(BUTTON1); // legge il valore dell'input e lo conserva // controlla che l'input sia HIGH (pulsante premuto) if (fed1 == HIGH)...

Hi Frank, I'd like to share the code calling Arduino to verify if the roof is opened or closed. It was developed several years ago by a friend for his own observatory. I modified a litlle the original one: QUOTE RoofStatusCheck() End Function RoofStatusCheck() cmd_serl=7 'serial port set by Arduino ...

Hi, I'm currently using such an integration for opening and closing the roof of my observatory after checking the relevant status of either the telescope (it shall be parked) and the roof itself. This last control is made by using a magnetic switch. The relevant commands, that are defined in the Ard...

Hi Andrew, I tried this procedure: - File -> Browse -> select all images that you need to have plate solved -> Menu -> send to Apply Script I used this script for my telescope: QUOTE ra,dec=Image.EstimateRaDec print ra, dec Image.FindCoordinates(ra,dec,5,2,19.3) UNQUOTE please verify the dimensione ...

Hi Eric and Fabio,
effectively in my answer I missed one sentence becuase it was a question. The right answer should have been, "you have to disable it".
Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Alessandro

HI Eric,
please check if you selected "save all images" in the Option tab (down right) of the Preprocessing tab.

Regards.

Alessandro

Hello Patrick, in the Astrometry panel of the Tool Menu the item "Center Plate", as far as I have understood, indicates the precision in pixel (0.5 is the suggested precision) of the position of the center plate once the Astrometry calculation have been done. It is indicated by a red inclined cross ...

Hello Patrick, the answer to the first question is yes, it could be also the center of an image. According to my understanding the always a geometrical definition (i.e. an image, either cropped or not, is centered at coordinates x and y). The center plate selection is not in the Astrometry window bu...

Hi Patrick,
"center plate" is a geometrical definition of the coordinates (x/2,y/2) where x and y are the numbers of the pixels of the sensor.
Regards.

Alessandro Maitan

As far as I know you can only position an annotation on pixel coordinates.

Alessandro