' SAFE TELESCOPE POSITION/PARKING OPTION
SafeAlt = 70.                         ' Altitude (deg) of safe final position for the telescope
SafeAz = 270.                         ' Azimuth (deg) of safe final position for the telescope
parkOnCompletion = True               ' True to park telescope upon completion
checkForDisconnectAfterPark = True    ' Set this to True if the connection between ACP and the
                                      ' telescope is terminated shortly after the telescope is
                                      ' parked (as in TheSky-controlled telescopes), and to False
                                      ' otherwise (as in SciTech telescopes)

• SafeAlt. This parameter specifies the altitude (in degrees) of a safe telescope position, to which the telescope will slew in certain situations when it could in principle stay tracking for long periods without doing any observation. This position should be such that the telescope could track for a long time without hitting any telescope slew limits. It should also be away from the ecliptic to prevent accidental pointing at the sun in case of some equipment or software problem. For German equatorial mounts, one would normally define this position to be west of the meridian (to prevent the mount from tracking into the meridian), north (south) of the ecliptic if the telescope is in the northern (southern) hemisphere.

• SafeAz. This parameter specifies the azimuth (in degrees, measured from north = 0 deg through east = 90 deg) of the safe telescope position discussed above.

• parkOnCompletion. Set this to True to park the telescope at the end of the night's observations, and to False otherwise.

• checkForDisconnectAfterPark. This parameter serves to prevent a script error which occurs after parking certain automated telescope mounts. Set it to True if the connection between ACP and the telescope is terminated shortly after the telescope is parked (when this happens, the numbers in the ACP telescope display will disappear), as happens on TheSky-controlled telescopes (such as the Paramount). If ACP stays connected to the telescope after parking, set this parameter to False.

Image compression parameters

' IMAGE COMPRESSION PARAMETERS
CalibrateZip = False                  ' True if you wish to produce a file named calibrate.zip
                                      ' in each user directory, containing only the calibration
                                      ' files required to process the night's images
pkZipPath = "c:\pkzipc\pkzipc.exe"    ' Full path to pkZip's command line version

• CalibrateZip. If you set this to True, a file named calibrate.zip will be created at the end of the night's observations in each user's \images subdirectory for that night (click here for more details about the directory structure used by MU to store user data). The calibrate.zip file will contain those master calibration files (bias, darks, flats) which are required to process the images taken by the user on that night. This is convenient to relieve the user from the need to browse through the full collection of calibration files which is stored in subdirectories \bias, \dark, \EveningFlat, and \MorningFlat. In order to produce the calibrate.zip files, you must have pkZip installed on the observatory control computer.

• pkZipPath. This is the full path to pkZip's command line version, pkzipc.exe on the observatory control computer. This parameter is only relevant if you have set CalibrateZip to True or if some of the observatory's users prefer that their science images be zipped for faster downloads.