XPost: alt.home.repair, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11
From: robin_listas@es.invalid
On 2024-01-25 02:48, micky wrote:
> In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:00:45 -0600, Jim Joyce
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:09:17 -0500, knuttle wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/24/2024 12:23 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
>>>> micky wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> good friends of theirs had given them a telescope. And they are
>>>>> complicated. Setup especially. And guess what, included in the box
>>>>> was a DVD.
>>>> Is the software not available to download from the telescope
>>>> manufacturer's website?
>>>>
>>> You have to have access to the internet to do that. If you are in a
>>> dark place to use the telescope there may be no internet available.
>>
>> Do your software and documentation downloads when it's convenient for you.
Don't
>> wait until the middle of the night when you're in a place without Internet
>> access.
>
> There is no software for this telescope, only a PDF owner's manual and
> some links that no longer work. Even the one with the motor drive to
> follow the subject while the earth rotates I'm 95% sure uses no
> software. Just admit that it's good to have a DVD drive when the
> company provides you with a DVD.
With reasonably good telescopes, software can be added. Like for
instance adjusting the speed of the motor to compensate irregularities
and actually track an object while it moves on the sky (by sampling a
photo with a camera on the scope). Or having the scope automatically
locate an object (needs changing the speed of the motor significantly).
Other software can look at the telescope camera and sync the computer
generated sky map to it, so that you can identify objects.
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Cheers, Carlos.
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