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6. Click Start Tracking to slew the mount to the satellite. If the satellite is moving
“quickly,” once the mount completes the slew to the original satellite’s position,
TheSky6 Professional Edition must slew again to catch up. Once the mount begins
tracking the satellite, the graphic in the Satellite Tracking dialog box shows the
computed position of the satellite as a circle, and the relative position of the mount,
as an “X”. The plus sign indicates the center of the graphic.
Start/Stop Search
Click this button to slew the mount in a spiral search pattern, while maintaining the
current tracking rates. This can help you locate a satellite that does not fall directly into
the field of view.
Software Bisque recommends that you try to track slow-moving geosynchronous satellites
to begin, and then move to the faster moving near-earth orbiting (NEOs) satellites once
you’re comfortable with the procedure.
DirectGuide™
Telescope mounts require feedback from an autoguiding CCD camera to track the motion
of a star over long periods of time. Typically, the autoguider monitors the position of a
guide star, and then sends an electronic signal through an autoguider port to open or close
a motion relay on the mount. This returns the guide star to the desired position, and
provides precise tracking.
The software and hardware combination of CCDSoft version 5, TheSky6 Professional
Edition and Paramount ME offers an exclusive technology, called “DirectGuide,” which
bypasses the autoguider port, and sends closed-loop autoguider corrections directly to the
MKS 4000 control system. Once CCDSoft is configured to use DirectGuide, (instead of the
traditional relay autoguiding method through the camera to the telescope) no autoguider
cable is needed.
To Enable DirectGuide
1. From CCDSoft, click Camera > Setup.
2. Click the Autoguider option.
3. Verify that the correct autoguider is selected from the Autoguider list.
4. Click the Autoguide tab.
5. Click Settings.
6. On the Autoguide Settings dialog box, click the Advanced option on the Drive
Settings tab.
7. Select DirectGuide from the Autoguide Using list.
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