Telescope Alignment Issue - Open
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Update 10/20/2025
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Obervatory crew reports repeated, terribly unfair, frustrating, and just plain
mean spirited failure of the CenterScope script. 

The issue seems to be related to a glitch in course positioning.  The procedure
as they described it to me is correct.  Manually (with the paddle or buttons on
the computer) put the telescope in 'Park 4'.  Park 4 is telescope tube on the
east side of the pier, business end pointed south, tube level with the deck.  

Then, we do a magical 'Unpark from Park 4' and the Alt and Az displays should
snap to 0 and 180 respectively.  That course alignment is usually enough to get
the telecope pointed out the slit and within a few degrees where it "thinks"
it's pointed.  

Generally, we then run CenterScope and it takes a picture, extracts some stars,
compares them to a catalog, figures out where the telescope is *actually*
pointing, and applies the correction.  

That last step is apparently failing.  We're not finding matching catalog stars
for the pattern of stars extracted from the image... hmm... 

Next Steps - Gerry will investigate
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Once I'm comfortable opening the dome again, I will try aligning the scope and
see if I can determine exactly what's failing.