Posts Made By: Paul Jantzen

I know that I've seen this information out on the web in the distant past, but I cannot seem to find it with a Google search (of course my query is probably exactly wrong, but ...) Anyway, I'm trying to build and program an autoguider/capture system for my U8PEC using the software my company writes. Why? Because I have access to some remarkably sensitive, cooled and EMCCD cameras (QImaging, Photometrics, Princeton Instruments) that I cannot wait to attach to my telescope to see what I can see. Using our software, I don't have to worry about writing capture drivers. Since FFT/cross correlation pattern matching is built into the software, autoguiding using some simple image processing techniques should be a snap.

What I need is the pinouts (the "shorting" pattern) for the six pins coming out of the hand controller. Anyone know of a website where I can find this information? Or perhaps someone with it buried in the recesses of their synapses?

You might want to try Tangent Instruments:

Tangent Instruments
1691 Spinnaker Drive, Suite 202
Ventura, CA 93001
(805)642-3136
contact: Rick McWilliams.

Rick helped me replace the PEC board on my Ultima 8 a couple of years ago. I don't know whether they are the manufacturer of your part, but it is worth a try.

mike welsh said:

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

-Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, withou a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful.
- Robert Heinlein