>R. Wyse reports that the default sign for declination is "minus" in Remark >2.36 (Power PC version). That is, without an explicit "+" the telescope >slews south of the equator. I believe that the experiment of pointing the >telescope to some +dec followed by erasing the + sign took the telescope to >the corresponding negative declination. > >[JHU Users: Remark 2.35 is still on the observing room Mac.] > >Alan Alan and Bob, It appears that what happens is that if nothing is put in the sign for declination, it uses whatever was there previously. For example if there was a plus sign in the in that box and it was deleted, the slew will be to positive dec, and if there was a negative sign in that box and it was deleted the telescope will slew to negative dec. This is true of both 2.35 and 2.36 ( and probably earlier versions as well ). I don't really think this is a bug, but to avoid possible confusion we might want to either force the user to put in a sign, or have it default to positive if it's empty. Dan APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 145 in the apo35-general archive. You can find APO the archive on http://www.astro.princeton.edu/APO/apo35-general/INDEX.html APO To join/leave the list, send mail to apo35-request@astro.princeton.edu APO To post a message, mail it to apo35-general@astro.princeton.edu APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO