In the following all the code is on hill in ~treffers and below. Directories mentioned below are from that root.
pointing/doall to generate the observations
of known stars.
Patrick Wallace has compiled a list of FK5 stars 5th magnitude or
brighter on a pitch of 20 degrees (TPoint/stars20b.dat).
This list is then run through the
visible program to determine which
are up.
Then the list of stars is run through a list optimizer program to order the observations to minimize telescope motion. Here is a typical result.
Finally the telescope is pointed at each star in turn, and the observer
is requested to use the paddle to center the star and hit return when
the star is centered.
The program then records the raw encoder readings and generates a
file called run.dat.
This file is in the format required by TPoint.
Here is an example.
indat run4.dat use IH ID #remove encoder offset fit #returns IH/ID values and rms of 66 arc-seconds call e9