Camera Interface 5.40

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Camera Interface 5.40

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Hello everybody, a new camera interface is available at the Astroart web site:
http://www.msb-astroart.com/

Version 5.40 - May 13, 2014
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* New options for autoguide.
* Improved look with Windows 125% and 150% scaling.
* Script commands Telescope.Tracking, Camera.GetTemperature
* Script commands for Moon and Sun position.

About autoguide for spectroscopy this great tutorial by Paolo Berardi is still valid:
http://www.astroartforum.net/forum/s...full=1#post482

It's now possible to save the calibration for two different setups:

Using the new script commands, here is a simple example to calculate the altitude of the sun and the moon:

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myLon = 12.4     ' Rome (positive if east)
myLat = 41.9

sub SunAlt()
  ra,de = SunRaDec(jd)
  az,al = EquatToAltaz(ra,de,myLon,myLat,jd)
  return al
end sub

sub MoonAlt()
  ra,de = MoonRaDec(jd)
  az,al = EquatToAltaz(ra,de,myLon,myLat,jd)
  return al
end sub

sAlt = SunAlt()
print "Sun Altitude = ", sAlt
mAlt = MoonAlt()
print "Moon Altitude = ", mAlt

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Re: Camera Interface 5.40

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Fabio,
Thanks for that!
Much appreciated - it looks like spectroscopy is finally going mainstream ;-)

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Re: Camera Interface 5.40

Post by Forum_2014 »

Great and much appreciated your effort.

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Re: Camera Interface 5.40

Post by Forum_2014 »

A lot of improvements in this release, thank you very much Fabio (also to all AA team)!

All the best!
Paolo

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