GUIDE-STAR SEARCH SOFTWARE: PRELIMINARY USER GUIDE
Robert Laing,
RGO,
January 1993

• Astronomical Background
• The Guide-Star Catalogue
• Preliminaries
• Simple use of the program
• More detailed description
  • Configurations
  • Target data
  • Commands
    • Data entry
    • Actions
  • Input and output files
    • Input
    • Output
• Current status
• Detailed description of the search areas
  • Definitions
  • Algorithms
    • Conversion between equatorial coordinate systems
    • Choice of an initial search area
    • Equatorial to tangent plane conversion
  • Apertures
  • Radial distortion
    • Conversion to guide-probe coordinates
  • Diagrams of the search areas
    • WHT Cassegrain (Figure 1)
    • WHT UES (Figure 2)
    • INT Prime CCD (Figure 3)
    • INT Cassegrain (Figure 4)
    • JKT f/8 Cassegrain (Figure 5)
    • JKT f/15 Cassegrain CCD (Figure 6)
    • Simple search (Figure 7)
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