Enabling Protrack; Activate Protrack; Enable Tracking Adjustments; Protrack Status Report - Software Bisque Paramount ME User Manual

Paramount ME User's Guide

Enabling ProTrack

To enable ProTrack, launch TheSky6 Professional Edition, establish communications with
the mount, and then click Telescope > Options > ProTrack Status (or press CONTROL+K)
to display the ProTrack Status dialog box. Next, mark both the Activate ProTrack and
Enable Tracking Adjustments options.
Figure 56: TheSky6 Professional Edition's ProTrack Status dialog box.

Activate ProTrack

Mark this option to display the corrections that will be applied to the mount using the
current TPoint modeling data. This option is useful to examine the magnitude of the
corrections before actually applying them. Note that if the Enable Tracking Adjustments
option is not marked, then no corrections are actually applied.

Enable Tracking Adjustments

Mark this option to actually apply the tracking corrections to the current tracking rate.

ProTrack Status Report

The ProTrack Status report lists the parameters used by the TPoint model to improve the
telescope's pointing. The table below describes each parameter.
ProTrack Status
Parameter
Target RA/Dec
Base position
Position demand (HA/Dec)
Average Rate (arcsec/min)
Drift (arcseconds)
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Description
The current equatorial coordinates of the telescope.
The hour angle and declination of the telescope when
ProTrack is activated.
The corrected hour angle and declination coordinates based
on the TPoint model.
The average tracking rate of the ProTrack corrections, in
arcseconds per minute.
The amount of drift (movement) from the base position, in
arcseconds.