From: Shannon Watters
Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20070308 (MJD 54168)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:27:56 -0600
At some point doesn't a /rota and /rotty need to be specified in the
sequence you're suggesting?
On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Russell E Owen wrote:
> At 11:41 AM -0700 2007-03-09, Shannon Watters wrote:
>> Hola,
>>
>> I watched the command as it was being typed into the laptop (the
>> second rotator move) and none of the rotator information was
>> included.
>>
>> It's difficult to accidentally issue a command to move the rotator:
>>
>> "track 121, 30 mount"  compared to "track 121, 30 mount /
>> rotty=mount /rota=60"
>
> You do not have to specify /rottype and /rotang in a track command
> to make the rotator move. The current rotator commanded position is
> used, if there is one, and the rotator is restarted if it was
> halted. You can specify /norestart to avoid restarting axes for one
> slew, or specify a rotation type of "none" to command the rotator
> to halt and stay halted.
>
> I think Dan is did put his finger on the problem:
>>>    At 11:56:30Z a track command to send the rotator to 60 was
>>> issued. None of the subsequent track commands over the next 5
>>> minutes specified the rotator position, so each time, it tried to
>>> go to 60 when I suspect they wanted it to go to zero.
> -- Russell
>
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