Telescope control system

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1985-10-15

1987-07-21

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Electricity: motive power systems

Positional servo systems

With particular motor control system responsive to the...

318696, 318603, 350568, G05B 1940

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046820914

ABSTRACT:
A telescope control system is set forth for controlling the orientation of a telescope under control of a microprocessor. The telescope control includes drives to pivot the telescope about each of the declination (altitude) and right ascension (azimuth) axes in stepped increments, each increment corresponding to a control pulse. The microprocessor generates and issues the control pulses from stored data to position the telescope for viewing a selected celestial object. Control pulses are based upon and counted from an index position and/or the preceding position of the telescope. Manual override is provided, the microprocessor accounting for pulses generated during manual override.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4142139 (1979-02-01), Slaats et al.
patent: 4401931 (1983-08-01), Kulterman et al.

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