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Hi All (To Mike and the gang :wink: I got my masters degree, thanx for all the help on the finer points of photometry with IRAF. U were great Thanx. P.S. the new pipeline is up and running on the Boyden telescope system.)I am throwing this bit on this forum, because I have some difficulty finding the right kind of info and or help from other places. If someone can help please At the telescope we have custom software controlling the ccd-imaging. The telescope is controlled by a TCS by DFM and communicates with the main PC via a series connection (COM1). The custom software then gets the telescope and airmass info from the DFM system to put into the fits headers of the ccd-images.We want to implement a off-axis auto-guider on a secondary telescope to increase the tracking accuracy for long exposures. We have a SBIG ST-7 that we want to use for that.The problem is this: Using seperate software for the auto-guiding will result in the software "highjacking" the COM-port for the telescope control, "so we think", which means that we will be unable to get the header info from the DFM system, and to develop custom auto-guiding software will take to long and and and... My Q? If someone has done something similar any help or tips would be appreciated. Or if someone can point me in the right direction please!!
Thanx
Pat