0.9m Telescope Control System Information

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This page gives details about the new Telescope Control System (TCS)
at the 0.9m, which was installed in April 2005 by DFM.
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DATES
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02 APR 2005	last night of old TCS at 0.9m

25 APR 2005	first night of new TCS at 0.9m
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GENERAL CAPABILITIES
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1. pointing now good to approximately 20"

2. minimal or no guiding required for exposures up to 5 minutes

3. the slew is much faster than for the previous TCS
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PROBLEMS
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The new TCS does not talk successfully with ARCON, which causes the
IRAF headers to have missing/incorrect information that should come
from the TCS.  The following fields cannot be trusted in the IRAF
headers:

	RA	  several arcmin off
	DEC       several arcmin off
	EPOCH     total garbage
	ZD        0.0
	HA        incorrect
	ST        incorrect
	AIRMASS   total garbage
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