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--- en:documentation:menutelescope [2009/01/23 22:11] – marc_fokker
+++ en:documentation:menutelescope [2021/06/01 18:21] (current) – [Track telescope] some typos fixed ralv
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 ====== Telescope Menu ======
-FIXME I started 2009-01-19 writing this part. It will take a couple of days to finish it. Please, be patient. Have a look in a week or so.
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 From the menu: **Telescope**
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-SkyCharts can be used to drive electronically controlled mounts, but you can also use SkyCharts to retrieve instructions to turn knobs on a manually controlled mount. Before you can use your telescope mount with SkyCharts, you need to configure the sort of mount and the driver from **Setup -> System -> [[system#telescope|Telescope]]**.
+SkyChart can be used to drive electronically controlled mounts, but you can also use SkyChart to retrieve instructions to turn knobs on a manually controlled mount. Anyhow, before you can use your telescope mount in combination with SkyChart, you need to configure the sort of mount and the driver from **Setup -> System -> [[system#telescope|Telescope]]**.
+===== Telescope settings =====
+Same as **Setup -> System -> [[system#telescope|Telescope]]**.
+===== Coordinates system =====
+It is very important that both the program and the telescope driver use the same coordinate system.
+Most INDI and ASCOM drivers specify if they want J2000 or Local coordinates and Skychart obey to that.\\
+Even for Local coordinates this is always non refracted coordinates.
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 From the menu: **Telescope -> Control Panel**
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-Here, you can make specific settings for the driver that you chose earlier in the dialog. There are a only a few drivers but they are usable with a multitude of mounts with each their specific possiblities. Please, check the manual that came with the driver and mount.
+Here, you can make specific settings for the driver that you chose earlier in the dialog. There are a only a few drivers but they are usable with a multitude of mounts with each their specific possibilities. Please, check the manual that came with the driver and mount.
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-A very important feature that all driver specific dialogs share, is the **Connect** button. When the telescope is physically connected and the driver/mount specific settings are OK, the program ususally connects automatically. The connection status is displayed at the bottom of the dialog. Somewhere between the ''Connect'' and the ''Disconnect'' button, there is a coloured square. Red indicates a disconnected status, green indicates the connected status.
+See specific help about each panel for [[telescope_ascom|ASCOM]] or [[telescope_indi|INDI]].
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-As soon your telescope is connected to your mount, SkyCharts will immediately read the current coordinates of your mount. After that, SkyCharts will show you this position centered on the chart.
+A very important feature that all driver specific dialogs share, is the **Connect** button. When the telescope is physically connected and the driver/mount specific settings are OK, the program usually connects automatically. The connection status is displayed at the bottom of the dialog. Somewhere between the ''Connect'' and the ''Disconnect'' button, there is a coloured square. Red indicates a disconnected status, green indicates the connected status.
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+As soon as your telescope is connected to your mount, SkyChart will immediately read the current coordinates from your mount into your chart. After that, SkyChart will show you this position centered on the chart.
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 The {{en:documentation:i48.png|}} icon of the **[[main_bar#telescope_group|telescope group]]** on the main bar is a shortcut for this function.
+===== INDI Control Panel =====
+This option is only show when the telescope interface is INDI
+Open a standard INDI option setting panel for all your INDI devices
 ===== Slew =====
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 Another way to slew your telescope to the next object, is by a right mouse button click on the label of the selected object. In the pop up window, click the line **Telescope**, and in the next pop up **Slew**.
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+You can stop the current slew operation with the **Abort Slew** menu or the keys: **Ctrl+K**.
 ===== Sync =====
 From the menu: **Telescope -> Sync**
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 In the **[[main_bar#telescope_group|telescope group]]** on the main bar you find the {{en:documentation:i51.png|}} sync icon as a shortcut for this fuction. \\
 Another way to sync your telescope to the chart, is by clicking the label of a selected object with the right mouse button. In the pop up window, click the line **Telescope**, and in the next pop up **Sync**.
+===== Track telescope =====
+Center the chart on the telescope position and follow it.
+It is important to remember that a telescope connection is linked to the chart that was active when you connect it. \\
+This allows to use more than one telescope, even with a different driver, each one connected to it's chart.
+So if you want many charts to follow a single telescope do it in the chart with the narrower field of view, and [[menuwindow#link_all_chart|link]] the other charts to this one.