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AllSkEye has a mechanism to display the position of a telescope by reading a text file which contains the current location of a telescope. For this to work your mount driver or other software must be able to generate a text file containing the position of the mount in some form of Altitude/Azimuth format.
The settings for this feature can be found in the Star Overlay settings:
| • | Position File: The complete path to the file containing the position info. |
| • | Label: The text to display on the output image. |
| • | Altitude RegEx: A RegEx expression telling AllSkEye how to extract the altitude information from the text. |
| • | Azimuth RegEx: A RegEx expression telling AllSkEye how to extract the azimuth information from the text. |
| • | Data is DMS Format: If ticked AllSkEye will assume that the data is in Degree/Minute/Second format. If not then AllSkEye will assume that the data is in decimal format. |
| • | Color: The colour of the diplayed marker. |
RegEx Expressions:
RegEx expressions are instructions on how certain values can be extracted from a text that matches a certain format. They allow a great degree of flexibility but are not so easily understood. If you need an expression to fit your text file then please get in touch via the forum or via email and send me a sample of the text file and I will produce the expressions for you.
Additional Note:
This is a first implementation of this mechanism. If you have further requirements for this (e.g. multiple scopes, input in RA/DEC, ASCOM connection to mount driver to retrieve position information, customisation of display etc.) then please get in touch and I will collate the requirements and see what can be added over the next iterations.