A chimera plugin for LNA domes.
Install chimera on your computer, and then, this package. Edit the configuration file adding one of the supported LNA domes as on the example below.
Besides chimera, chimera-lna depends only of pyserial.
pip install -U git+https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera-lna.git
Here goes examples of the configuration to be added on chimera.config file.
- LNA 40cm dome
dome: type: DomeLNA40cm name: dome device: COM7 telescope: 200.131.64.200:7666/TheSkyTelescope/paramount telescope: /FakeTelescope/fake model: COTE/LNA
From the Paramount ME mount specification page:
Use the following equation to compute the distance from the center point of the mount to the intersection of the right ascension and declination axis. Distance (cm) = 33 * cos(latitude + 29) - 10
Details on the calculations of the mount-dome offset can be found here and mirrored alternatively here.
This plugin was tested on these hardware:
- LNA 40cm dome. This dome is a custom build.
For more information, contact us on chimera's discussion list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chimera-discuss
Bug reports and patches are welcome and can be sent over our GitHub page: https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera-lna/