Hi Edward, I wish you luck with your 105. Join the club of 'small telescopes'. I have been doing some sketching with the 105. See : www.geocities.com/rodelaet ...
... Thank you Rony. I will be using my 105 whenever possible. I visited your site and I think you doing a great service to everyone. Most people see deepsky...
Stephen Hamilton ETXASTRO@yahoogroups.com #497 Autostar Troubleshooting Hi Stephen, I am in great trouble: About my MEADE ETX125PE purchased, DSI purchased...
Thanks Ed, I'm pleased that you like my sketches. The 105 is a wonderfull scope. I've promised myself not to upgrade untill I've explored the entire sky with...
Please check your warranty situation. Meade or your dealer should make good on a repair or a replacement part. The Autostar may have gone bad, or a fuse in...
... I would first check the cable between the Autostar and the telescope. Either wiggle the ends, or take it to a computer store and have them "squeeze" the...
There is the possibility that the batteries may have run down. My ETX70 sometimes displayed similar symptoms when the power was low. Paul ... and ... updated,...
A test ... There is the possibility that the batteries may have run down. My ETX70 sometimes displayed similar symptoms when the power was low. Paul ... and ...
I am using an ETX-90EC. I just started playing with it. I want to create a program to scan the inside of a dome. The dome has a radius of about 75 feet (I'm...
http://www.meade.com/support/auto/AutostarTourFiles/HowToWriteATour.p df is a short course on programming a tour for the Autostar. You could try to use the...
In tours of terrestrial (not astronomic) type, you should have tracking off. This will fix the scope in position, and it will not follow stars as the earth...
Gday ?????? ... There are two ways. 1) As per other posts, create and load a tour or list of landmarks This is kludgy for what you want 2) Connect yr PC...
Thank you for your input. This helps out and gives me a real good idea of how to pursue this. I will not be in the center of the dome as I suggested, so I...
http://www.meade.com/support/LX200CommandSet.pdf has the Autostar command set for writing your own routines for slew, etc in the ASCOM (LX200 and more modern)...
Many thanks to all the help i got from members a couple of months back , well i took the advice on board and here are the results. I was especially greatful...
Very nice pictures Pete, I've still to take some with my 105. Did you use a filter, adjust the exposure time, or a bit of both ? Alan ... back , well i took...
Hi Bill Thanks for your response - it can never be too late for any useful suggestions. As you quite rightly suggested the origin of the fault could have been...
Alan i didnt use a filter, to be honest i didnt expect to get any good results i just got the moon as best i could in the cameras viewfinder , this was...
On of the things you comment on in the report below is the locking mechanism. I did read in the ETX-Tuneup guide, that this mechanism needs to be adjusted...
Re: [ETXASTRO] Re: Autostar 4.1Ec on an ETX125PE - a problem with the drives.If any one is interested I have a Meade LNX 200 8in for sale. It is the older...
Help I should have posted this the other day when i took my moon pics, the time was out by an hour as the clocks went forwards 1 hour the other week (uk) and i...
... Hi: What do you mean by "older one"?...the "Classic" or the LX200 GPS? The Classic model of the LX200 did not use the Autostar. Peace, Rod Mollise Author...
Hi, Last year I bought an ETX 105 and the LPI camera and have had great fun with this, taking images of the moon, the sun and the planets. Now I'm planning to...
... When your wristwatch is on SummerTime, then the answer to "Daylight SAvings?" should be YES. In case that's -not- the problem (or Meade did its usual ...
Dick Thanks for your post ive sorted it out now , i had set the time 1 hour in advance for Brittish Summer Time and also set the daylight saving to on at the...
... I thought the ETX's f/14 wouldn't let in enough light for deep space shots without a focal reducer. That's why I wanted to buy the Meade f3.3 which wil...
I did wonder about this as it's not clear in the manual. Does the Daylight Saving option automatically advance the time by an hour, so that if I set the...
... Yes. The ATIK works well: <http://scopestuff.com/ss_frat.htm> Peace, Rod Mollise Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_ Like SCTs...
