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Usage

acquire [nozero]
\end{description}
\textbf{acquire} is a shell script which tries to put the guide star in the center of the field.
\begin{itemize}
\item it runs the guide script for one cycle if guide sucessful is exits o.k
\item takes a 5 second guider image
\item searches for brightest star in field
\item if none bright enough, aborts
\item calculates offset to star
\item moves telescope
\end{itemize}
\subsection{dopoint - takes coordinate inputs and points the telescope}
\subsubsection{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}
dopoint [optional_argument]
This simple courtesy script takes coordinates from the standard input and reformats them for the point command. The command expects the Right Ascension, declination and equinox in the format HH:MM:SSS DD:MM:SS yyyy and will transmit a message to the telescope server.

An optional argument such as nodome or finder can be included and it will be passed onto the point command.

The command is often used in conjunction with piped output of the bright (Section 5.9.4) or moon (Section 5.9.8) commands.



Louis-Gregory Strolger 2012-01-09