In fact, the best dewshields are easily made at home for about $15. They work much better than most commercial shields. See my standard dewshield reply at ...
At least one of the many versions is a low strength version designed to "reduce" the chance of a bolt/nut loosening, while still allowing it to be easily...
Hi Thanks to all for the helpful replies. I'll probably look to do this operation over the mid summer (unless it gets very bad in the meantime). It'll give...
My taxes have arrived and i will soon be purchasing the scope i have longed for so so many years, Yet due to limited funds, i will have to be buying used, but...
John, thank you for your response and the reference. I made one out of thin rubber panels and hundred mile an hour tape. Not the best but good enough to get me...
Shawn, thank you for your comments. I made two dew shields. A short one and a long one. Last night I used only the short one and had no dew. I made them out...
I would say don't be in a rush. I would also watch out with used scopes as parts and service are only available for so long. A 5 year old scope is 10 in 5...
I have just done the Buck's Gear upgrade on a 14in model. Luckily I noticed that Meade had used thread lock for the screws on both ends of the worm shaft and...
If you are set on buying an LX series telescope, the LX200GPS is still a viable system as even the latest LX200ACF that is manufactured by Meade still uses the...
How long do you -want- it? RS232 is fairly robust... 50 feet is easy, 100 feet is usually practical. For longer runs (i've done 300 feet, but not for a...
About 60' I would say. Thanks for the information. Arthur ... From: autostaretx To: LX200GPS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 11:07 AM Subject:...
You can look at this site, I bought my 14" LX200GPS from them and if I remember the shipping was free, but check on this. I found their prices reasonable. Mike...
We made the radio this week. A car program has a puzzler, brain teaser, each week, and they said to put your answer on a postcard or on a meade LX200 10...
What a coincidence- I'm currently listening to that show on the radio as I was catching up on my email. But you were probably hearing a re-run. The "send your...
Those guys are getting a lot more expensive! They used to tell listeners to send in their answers on the back of a $20 bill. ________________________________ ...
Some time ago I posted a question about the menu item "GPS-UTC Offset" & where I should set it. I run a 10" LX200 GPS on the Alt-Az setup. The scope is...
The "GPS UTC Offset" is the (growing) correction factor between UTC time and GPS satellite time. Perhaps you've heard of the occasional "leap second" added to...
I think someone here once claimed that the earliest GPS units used by Meade didn't correct this automatically. But why (I think) the default is still 13...
This has been discussed here many times, so have you tried searching the group message archives? Search for "UTC offset". The short answer is don't worry...
OOPS, your right I messed this up. Go here. http://www.opticsplanet.net/telescopes.html Mike ... From: John Mahony To: LX200GPS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday,...
Dick I wont question your answer but I would think you would have to alter the hours when daylight saving time changes but your saying the program know that...
What i was trying to say was: If you are -manually- setting your LX200gps' Site's Time Zone (versus letting the "nearest city" set it for you), the number you...
Hi all, I have repaired my old ST-4 autoguider. I would like to use it with my LX200 GPS using the guiding port to test efficiency and use it if good. I have a...
Hello all, I have recently developed a slewing problem with my lx200gps. when asking the scope to slew to targets in the western sky, it slews east attempting...
I had that happen to me just a couple of days ago. I also had the issue several years ago. Solution - do a reset of the Autostar. Dave Herald Canberra,...
