Thanks, Dave ________________________________ From: Dave Gary <davegary@me.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 5:08 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] RTGUI+S Real-Time Astronomy Software for Windows Joe, Here’s the link to the website for RTGUI. Download it and play around with it. It’s very nice. You can script it, also. The scripting invocation “minalt=” doesn’t work properly, but I’ve informed Robert and he is going to look at it for the next release. The search Wizard is great. His catalogues are very extensive and you can download other catalogues. It should work great with your GPS scope. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. It links to Cartes du Ciel, also. For a start, align your scope, then tell RTGUI what COM port your scope is using on your computer via the Options button in the program. It is self-explanatory when you go into that function. Do what it tells you to do. When you’re back on the main program screen, for a start, hit “b” then “g” on your keyboard, then “n” then “g” or “p” then “g”….repeat. If you want to link into Charts du Ciel hit “s”. Of course you have to have Charts du Ciel loaded in your computer, but most astronomy guys that use goto functionality have Charts du Ciel. I think you’ll enjoy RTGUI and I’ve found its pointing is dead-on as long as your alignment is good. I use this program almost exclusively, now. One thing, do not have your GPS scope in Long Format Mode, it’s not on by default when you turn it on, but some guys switch to it for a little greater accuracy when pointing with some programs such as TheSky. This is not high precision pointing, that’s a different thing. RTGUI works fine with high precision pointing, but it does not like long format mode. A pointer, just in case. Too bad it’s a Windoze-only program. http://www.rtgui.com/ Dave _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php