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American
Astronomical Society (AAS) Winter
Meeting in Washington, DC. and further demonstrated
at the AAS summer meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The WinTCS™ allows integrating third party astronomy
software with the telescope control software in a single
control computer producing a stunning Graphical User
Interface (GUI). The third party software allows the
telescope user to take advantage of the many years of
astronomy software development by companies such as
Software
Bisque (TheSky™ and their internet remote software
programs), and Diffraction Limited (MaxIm
DL/CCD) to provide a large data base GUI and control
of filter wheels and CCD cameras.
A new feature of the DFM Engineering WinTCS™ is
an enhanced GUI to the pointing
model. Now the pointing model coefficients and position
error graphs are simultaneously displayed. Changing
the pointing model coefficients causes the position
error graphs to change in real time while the R.A. and
Declination RMS errors are summarized. When the new
model coefficients have been determined, they may be
easily uploaded into the TCS pointing model file.
The new pointing model system highly simplifies reducing
the position error data to determine new pointing model
coefficients. This increase in efficiency allows modeling
the pointing of DFM telescopes to even higher levels
than before.
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