Mel Bartels Scope

Compiled under Borland C. There is also a somewhat clumsy means of using the Mel Bartels ALTAZ system.

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The stars were so bright and the sky so black as I peered out the window.

Mel bartels scope. Mel has spent many hours providing almost every possible feature in SCOPE II. For my part I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream. 108 mel bartels stepper system operation using scopeexe 138 109 argo navis sky commander mode handpad operation 138 1010 using the handpad as a wired handpad 139 1011 accessing the receiver io 139 1012 autoguider port 140 1013 radio hand pad agency approvals 140 11 lx200 to sitechexe interface 142 111 installation 143.

The mount has a tangent arm. In combination with my experience having build several hobby CNC machines I decided to use external drivers running at 45V Leadshine DM556. Otherwise you can at boot up time go directly into the command line and run scopeexe under Dos 7 or alternatively simply boot with a disk with DOS 6x on it any Dos from 3 up is fine.

Needs a simple current switching circuit to power the motors. Once slewed the Sidereal Technology. Mel Bartels stepper motor telescope control software.

Scopeexe the original DOS based telescope control program in C. I have just started to play around with Mel Bartels Scope program again. I may have to use one of my other laptops to run Windows 98SE and see if I have the same issue however the only other laptop doesnt have a cd-rom is it possible to load both CD data on several floppy disks and load.

Mel Bartels Scope II PC application for high precision control. One of my most vivid memories as a child is resting in the back of my parents station wagon while driving back home to the city. And what you are reading now is my odyssey to having it.

The Meniscus is the Thing. Compiled under Borland C. He says that his hobby is Writing real-time control-code for computerized motor driven telescopes.

The motors must be mounted yourself. The system is driving two stepping motors in micro-stepping mode. This was my new scope.

More info and all of the main screens are pictured in the details area. The following notes grew out of discussions we had about how the system should work and are of. My first career was in music.

4Use Mel Bartels SCOPE II WindowsMacUNIX software Java Based observatory quality incredibly accurate GOTO and Tracking. The original 115vac 60hz Synchro motors have been removed by previous. Along the way we also stop in at familiar galaxies.

Galactic cirrus clouds of interstellar dust is challenging to observe but Mel Bartels shows us how in the April 2019 issue of the magazine. Discovering galactic cirrus Mel Bartels manages a software development team during daylight hours. Mel Bartels scopeexe will drive the mount.

Accompanying his explanations with detailed hand-drawn sketches Mel takes us on a tour of the ghostly cirrus as it arcs across the sky. - GitHub - MelBartelsscope. Mel Bartels has written a program based on his popular freeware software called Equatorial Scope.

Giro III mount is very sturdy and can carry very heavy scopes. Mel Bartels Scopeexe is a dos program and will run under win3x fine and will run under win9x ok too but not under win2k. Concept only scale approximate but not that far off.

Although I do have a 9 359 tooth gear and worm to make a complete goto conversion one day. He has sketched dozens of Integrated Flux Nebulae and hundreds of dark nebulae with his homebuilt fast reflectors. But I really am a beginner.

The purpose of this repo is browsing and annotation not further development. Amateur Telescope Making Steve Houlihans TriBino Martin Maters Astronomy website Uwe Glahns 27 Dobsonian ScopeX ATM in South Africa Berthold Hamburger. It turned out pretty.

Mel Bartels - dim white is the best color for preserving night vision Leibrock Reuter Lamb - Dark Adaptation Mark D Holm - eye sensitivity wavelength of light. During evenings Mel is an avid observer and telescope maker. I started with Mel Bartels scopeexe switched to a commercial system and that is no obsolete and broken.

We are excited. Although the upstream project is not actively developed quite a lot of accumulated wisdom on stepper motor mount control is represented in the source and accompanying documentation. Folding and sliding Telescopes Carls Astronomy page.

Its because of his ideas his enthusiasm and his work that many of us enjoy OUR hobby so much today. This software is for the stepper driven systems only and not for. We visit Ursa Major Leo Coma Berenices and Canes Venatici.

It is because of Mel Bartels that we as a collective society-at. Needs a simple current switching circuit to power the motors. A 6 inch F28 telescope Mel Bartels 13 inch zip Dob a folding telescope Mel Bartels.

Here is a basic description on Mel Bartels scope drive system. Interests in deep sky observing and cold camera. The controller can also be used in standalone mode which requires the user to slew manually to the desired object.

Fast-forward to the summer of 2015 when I randomly came across Mel Bartels website and this awesome telescope. Southern Stars SkySafari iPhone planetarium app. I will have a controlbox for the drivers also having the PCB and 45V RA DEC 12V.

But once this system is up and running right you dont have to touch it for years. Regarding DOS I am running Windows 98SE and boot my machine to dos and access Guide8 after Mel Bartels Scope Drive is loaded. More recently Mel and I have worked on a new method for telescope control.

This system has a software learning curve to get your head around and is necessary for maximum use from Mel Bartels excellent controller software Scope 1. Born in 1954 Mel Bartels works as a Systems Manager and Senior AnalystProgrammer in the Eugene Oregon area. Initially this will carry a Celestron C6 scope which dreams of of being a C8 when it grows up.

Bend but dont break and some new ideas in telescope making. --- Vincent van Gogh I work on thin meniscus mirrors for very fast high etendue Richest Field Telescopes using them to visually discover galactic cirrus Integrated Flux Nebulae. Mel Bartels In Win31 you can use the interrupt method of halfstepping.

Ending with prospects for a 107meter thin meniscus and a backseat 05-meter scope Mel Bartels 800 - Update on 36-inch f4 direct drive telescope - Dan Gr. I sure didnt expect that. - Original version Scope I version since 92 This is a DIY simple stepping motor driver board dedicated MS-DOS based low-end PC as the brain of the drive system running free scopeexe software.

I was blown away by its elegant design and even more blown away by the compactness of the optics. A 105 f27 24 degree field of view Telescope Mel Bartels. Finding the target object is done either by star-hopping with charts or using one of the programs or devices listed above.

Altitude azimuth Ed_Byers Giro_III Mel_Bartels. I have a SchaeferR Porter mount with a 9 10 not sure of exact size Ed Byer 359 tooth worm gear. This system is probably more suitable for ATMers.

It uses the same time tested scopeexe code but this version has been tailored for visual use only for Equatorial Mount users specifically. I stained the wood Early American and varnished it with Varathane. Azimuth gear will have a slip clutch mechanism using bicycle quick release clamps.

Scopeexe the original DOS based telescope control program in C. The ground ring is from the 20 scope that Kathy and I bought from Mel Bartels. 730 Another Round.

5Use Mel Bartels Windows software ScopeIII. I think the finish is one of the things that surprised me most about this scope. This is the scope driver system.

PC must run pure MS-DOS operating system ie not. Everything will be permantently installed. So I gather that I am operating under a DOS shell.

Mel Bartels Fast Scopes and Faint Nebulae. At present Guide provides control for the LX-200 and Sky Commander telescope systems. If you want better than 1 arc minute pointing sky to sky or want to do serious photography Mels SCOPE II is the way to go.

I was glad to see that we could re-use that saving me the trouble of building and storing a second one.

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