Image: reddit.com · Fable 5 and porting old windows software to macOS/ipadOS for Astro-Physics Mach1GTO mount.
Mount control software for an old Astro-Physics Mach1GTO ported to macOS
An older Windows-era control program for a GTOCP3-driven Mach1 telescope mount was rebuilt as native macOS software by pair programming with Claude Fable 5.
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The mount is an older Mach1 equatorial mount run by a GTOCP3 controller, with an equally old software base. The owner pair-programmed with Fable 5, which searched public information and used his input to get native macOS control software working.
At his suggestion, Fable also recreated his tripod, mount head, adapter plate and three telescopes in 3D from specifications it found online, with estimates of when the tubes would hit the tripod legs. He also mentions an old, unsupported Orion Starshoot camera lying around, but the post text is cut off before saying what became of it.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Fable 5 and porting old windows software to macOS/ipadOS for Astro-Physics Mach1GTO mount.Reddit poster: sed8emPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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