Comments on: Junk Bond Observatory - Mini-Tour http://bluecollarscientist.com/?p=390 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:39:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: ekzept http://bluecollarscientist.com/?p=390#comment-1526 ekzept Sat, 03 May 2008 21:46:52 +0000 http://bluecollarscientist.com/?p=390#comment-1526 can you put up some links to sample SCP code to illustrate what it looks like? what's SCP written in? what kinds of feedback do you get from the telescope? for example, can you monitor amperage on the drive motors and help detect stalls with that? what are the motors like? do they step? how are they geared to the scope? do you have any diagrams of the drive train you can link? what does your calibration sequence each night look like? how often do you do recalibrations? when the scope is positioned for an image, is the control open-loop? or is there some kind of a test used to verify that the scope is in the proper field? does the SCP script have any error handling logic? can you put up some links to sample SCP code to illustrate what it looks like? what’s SCP written in? what kinds of feedback do you get from the telescope? for example, can you monitor amperage on the drive motors and help detect stalls with that? what are the motors like? do they step? how are they geared to the scope? do you have any diagrams of the drive train you can link? what does your calibration sequence each night look like? how often do you do recalibrations? when the scope is positioned for an image, is the control open-loop? or is there some kind of a test used to verify that the scope is in the proper field?

does the SCP script have any error handling logic?

]]> By: Martin R http://bluecollarscientist.com/?p=390#comment-1504 Martin R Sat, 03 May 2008 07:08:25 +0000 http://bluecollarscientist.com/?p=390#comment-1504 Could you please tell us why the observatory is named Junk Bond? Could you please tell us why the observatory is named Junk Bond?

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