Best Pair II 1.2.1 review

Best Pair II is a port of Jim Burrows' BestPair DOS program for Macintosh and Windows computers.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 874K Developer: iLanga Price: $0.00 Updated: 15 May 2006

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Best Pair II is a port of Jim Burrows' BestPair DOS program for Macintosh and Windows computers. It is designed to select the "best" pair of alignment stars for performing a 2-star alignment of a Meade LX200 Classic telescope (or any Meade telescope that uses the AutoStar computer controller) in Alt-Azimuth mode.

The application looks at the pointing errors involved with performing an alignment with each pair of Meade's choice of 33 stars (or 78 in the case of AutoStar), examining only those that will be visible at the place and time specified. The pair of stars chosen is that with the smallest error.
Best Pair II finds the best pair of alignment stars for performing a 2-star alignment.

What's New:
Fixes to handle European number/date format. This does not affect anyone using US or English number formats.
Fix to handle fractional UTC offsets. This does not affect anyone with a UTC offset of a whole number of hours.
Some very minor cosmetic tweaks. Unless you are affected by the above changes, there is no need to upgrade from V 1.2.