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- From: beaucham@astro.phy.ulaval.ca (Dominique Beauchamp)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Need formulas to point unaligned telescope
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.140609.10342@cerberus.ulaval.ca>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:06:09 GMT
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- In article <C15s9C.oM@boi.hp.com> jmcvey@boi.hp.com ( John McVey x3638 ) writes:
- >Rather than the usual reference to a book, would some well informed
- >person just post the formulas and how to use them.
- >
- >Thanks in advance,
- >
- >John McVey
- >jmcvey@hpbslq.boi.hp.com
-
- Listen, I cannot give here all the formulae! But I can give you a good
- reference. Look at Sky & Telescope for February 1989. It is an article
- written by Toshimi Taki in the "Astronomical Computing" column. He gives
- us a little program in BASIC that allow a telescope to be aimed without any
- polar alignment. You just have to aim 2 references stars. It works like
- the little boxes with shaft encoders (I cannot remember the name).
-
- But the article will give you all the formulae which are rather easy to
- understand if it is all you want to know.
-
- Hope it can help you!
-
- Dominique Beauchamp
-