Open PECTool

This is clone of the Celestron PECTool used to upload, download and manipulate PEC data. It is intended to work with Celestron Nexstar mounts like NexStar GPS, NexStar GPS-SA, NexStar iSeries, NexStar SE Series, NexStar GT, Advanced-VX, Advanced-GT and CGE mounts.

Communication to the hand control is 9600 bits/sec, no parity and one
stop bit via the RS-232 port on the base of the hand control.

To build it libnexstar version 0.11 or newer is needed, which can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libnexstar/

Mac OSX binary is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpectool/files/prebuilt/openpectool-0.0.1.dmg/download

Features

Upload PEC data to the mount.
Download PEC data from the mount.
Save and Load data from file.
Data files are 100% compatible with Celestron PECTool
Record and Payback PEC data with visual marks for the starting and the current position.

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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hmartian Edited 2015-04-02

Very good Linux alternative to Celestron's PEC tool. Works perfectly, but I miss the averaging of periodic error data.

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Education, Science/Research

User Interface

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Astronomy Software

Registered

2014-03-28

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