Re: Python module for LX200 telescope command set

2006-01-31 Thread Alan Kennedy
[RayS] > I've begun a Python module to provide a complete interface to the Meade > LX200 command set: and > History: after searching for such a thing, I had found only: > http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:hOgO7H_MUeYJ:phl3pc02.phytch.dur.ac.uk/~jrl/source/source_code.html+lx200.py&hl=en&gl=us&

Re: Python module for LX200 telescope command set (Steve Horsley)

2006-01-30 Thread RayS
At 08:25 AM 1/30/2006, you wrote: >Terry Hancock wrote: >>On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:25:43 -0800 >>RayS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>(about LX200 module) >>Sounds interesting, but I don't actually know what an LX200 >>is. I considered buying one of the Meade computer controlled >>telescopes (there is a

Re: Python module for LX200 telescope command set

2006-01-30 Thread RayS
Hello Neil, Thank you for the extended response! All of your suggestions are reasonable, at the least. The only misgiving I had with breaking up into multiple classes is that the scope itself maintains state variables (it runs a Motorola processor etc) - so you can pick an object from the libra

Re: Python module for LX200 telescope command set

2006-01-30 Thread Steve Horsley
Terry Hancock wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:25:43 -0800 > RayS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (about LX200 module) > > Sounds interesting, but I don't actually know what an LX200 > is. I considered buying one of the Meade computer controlled > telescopes (there is a very inexpensive one that has b

Re: Python module for LX200 telescope command set

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Benn
RayS wrote: >I've begun a Python module to provide a complete interface to the Meade >LX200 command set: >http://rjs.org/Python/LX200.py >and would like input from potential users or people interested in >developing it further. > > Hello, I know nothing about telescopes and spendin

Re: Python module for LX200 telescope command set

2006-01-29 Thread Robert Kern
RayS wrote: > Whatever happened to the astropy list? http://www.scipy.net/mailman/listinfo/astropy -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: Python module for LX200 telescope command set

2006-01-29 Thread RayS
At 06:55 PM 1/29/2006, you wrote: >Subject: Re: Python module for LX200 telescope command set >Message: 9 > >On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:25:43 -0800, RayS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed >the following in comp.lang.python: > > > I've begun a Python module to provid

Re: Python module for LX200 telescope command set

2006-01-29 Thread Terry Hancock
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:25:43 -0800 RayS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (about LX200 module) Sounds interesting, but I don't actually know what an LX200 is. I considered buying one of the Meade computer controlled telescopes (there is a very inexpensive one that has been marketed through Walmart. Ordin

Python module for LX200 telescope command set

2006-01-29 Thread RayS
I've begun a Python module to provide a complete interface to the Meade LX200 command set: http://rjs.org/Python/LX200.py and would like input from potential users or people interested in developing it further. The code I have online is a very alpha start - it contains all of the command set, pa