OPTIONS

The equinox option precesses the coordinates to the the specified year rather than the current epoch. The nopcorr option removes the telescope pointing corrections. The raw option removes all five of the above corrections.

The hour angle, altitude and azimuth are all reported in decimal degrees. The secz, secant of the zenith angle, is unitless.

The azimuth is that of where the telescope is pointing and is not necessarily the azimuth the dome should be pointing.

If either the HA or Dec encoder has not been homed, an ERROR message will occur. Use the home command (see section 5.1.5) to correct.

The decimal option causes the RA and Dec to be reported in decimal degrees rather than sexagesimal hours/degrees.