[ACP-1733]  Guiding Angle Calculation for SBIG Internal Guiders
Type Enhancement
Priority High
Severity Major
Component AcquireSupport library
Fixed In Version [] 
Versions Affected [8.2.2] 8.2.2
Severity In Progress
Resolution Unresolved
Reported By Bob Denny
Resources Bob Denny
Start Date 6/21/2021

Description 
See the following Comm Center threads:








SBIG AO-X flags issue (Victoria Saucier)






AO-X + FW-8G Guiding Problems (Tim Long)







There seems to be one or more new guide camera configurations. Need to get at least Tim and Victoria going, then look at what's needed for both AO and conventional, then add modes/switches as needed.

Comments
8/26/2024 12:05:58 PM   Bob Denny 
See this post in the Guiding Calibration for the AO thread.






Option #2 in the list is the correct one for the SBIG SC-4.







Add a 4th option to the Guide Sensor Configuration droplist for this. 
8/21/2024 5:19:13 PM   Bob Denny 
REOPENED






See this Comm Center thread by John Downing. After all this time, the new SBIG SC-4 has different reflections.  It appears that option 2 in AcquireSupport is correct for this guide config. 







This should be addressed with a 4th option in ACP Preferences, Guiding tab, Guide Sensor Configuration. Fortunately this is implemented as an integer in the API so no change to the API itself is needed. Then in AcquireSupport provide for switching between option 2 and 3.

















Waiting for report on whether this works.
6/23/2021 10:09:50 AM   Bob Denny 

 

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  Affected files
  /trunk/ACP Help/relnotes.htm (Modified)
/trunk/AcquireSupport.wsc (Modified)
/trunk/Script Components Master/AcquireSupport.wsc (Modified)

 

 

  Check-in comment
  Correct guide angle calculation for SBIG STX-16803 internal guider
GEM:1733
6/23/2021 10:04:04 AM   Bob Denny 
Travis Deyoe provides the correct calculation for his STX-16803. Implement this and leave the other two commented out with notations.
6/21/2021 4:32:22 PM   Bob Denny 






See Victoria's solution. I believe that the STX-16803's internal guider has some sort of optical and/or electronic rotation or reflection. I'm good with changing the production Internal code to work properly (it is a rare configuration anyway). I'll probably get some flack from a few people but I'll put it into the Release Notes in orange.
11/19/2019 2:25:58 PM   Bob Denny 
See this Comm Center post by Victoria Saucier (part of her thread). More data, and confusion.
10/25/2019 11:53:17 AM   Bob Denny 
Also note the ideas from Eric Dose in this message.