/// Windows C# Sample Console Application: AutoGuide
///
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///
/// Author: R.McAlister (2017)
///
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///
/// This application performs the following steps:
/// Finds a target, M39 in this case
/// Turns off Autoguiding (if on)
/// Performs a Closed Loop Slew to the target
/// Takes an image with the Autoguide camera
/// Turns on Autoguiding
///
///
public void AutoGuideSample()
{
///Set connection to star chart and perform a find on M39 -- this will set the target for a CLS
sky6StarChart tsx_sc = new sky6StarChart();
tsx_sc.Find("M39");
///Create connection to autoguide camera and connect
ccdsoftCamera tsx_ag = new ccdsoftCamera();
///Attach this object to the guider camera
tsx_ag.Autoguider = 1;
///Find out with the guide camera is up to. Abort if autoguiding or calibrating
if (tsx_ag.Connect() == 0)
{
if ((tsx_ag.State == ccdsoftCameraState.cdStateAutoGuide) | (tsx_ag.State == ccdsoftCameraState.cdStateCalibrate))
{
tsx_ag.Abort();
}
;
}
;
///Create closed loop slew object
ClosedLoopSlew tsx_cls = new ClosedLoopSlew();
///Set the exposure, filter to luminance and reduction, set the camera delay to 0 -- backlash
/// should be picked up in the mount driver
ccdsoftCamera tsx_cc = new ccdsoftCamera();
tsx_cc.ImageReduction = ccdsoftImageReduction.cdAutoDark;
tsx_cc.FilterIndexZeroBased = 3; ///Luminance
tsx_cc.ExposureTime = 10;
tsx_cc.Delay = 0;
///run CLS synchronously
///tsx_cls.Asynchronous = False ///-- this setting doesn///t appear to work (member not found) as of DB8458
///Execute
try
{
int clsstat = tsx_cls.exec();
}
catch
{ ///Just close up: TSX will spawn error window
MessageBox.Show("Closed Loop Slew error");
return;
///Let it go for demo purposes
};
///Connect AutoGuide camera in case it isn///t
try
{
tsx_ag.Connect();
}
catch
{
MessageBox.Show("Guide camera connect error");
return;
};
///Take an image to use for Autoguiding, run the function synchronously
tsx_ag.ExposureTime = 2;
tsx_ag.Asynchronous = 0;
tsx_ag.Subframe = 0;
var tstat = tsx_ag.TakeImage(); ///Just assume it works
///Turn asynchronous back on to get out of this
tsx_ag.Asynchronous = 1;
///Fire off Autoguiding
tsx_ag.Autoguide();
return;
}