On 27 Jan 2015, at 14:37, Dion Davidson via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Fantastic! When you do the animation where the camera seems to track the asteroid, is that a trick accomplished in post processing, or did you actually teach the mount to track the asteroid? (how?)Dion
It certainly did not take a lot of skill. :) As you suggested it was just a matter of teaching the mount to follow the target. The brainy folks at Software Bisque wrote TheSky6 and built the Paramount so they talk together very nicely. It's just a matter of importing the data on the target from the Minor Planet Center into TheSky and then clicking on the target on the monitor and then one more click to say "Follow that dot!" And it does. Reminds me of how Steve jobs used to refer to Apple products as "They just work". Cheers, patrick