Bob, Did you double check the polarity? If you have backward it won't work. Jerry in Arizona ... __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine...
New firmware posted today on the Meade site for the 497 Autostar http://www.meade.com/support/auto/Build.zip Clay ... Dr. P. Clay Sherrod Arkansas Sky...
Just letting you guys know I have started a new group for the Meade LightBridge Truss Dobs: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_LightBridge_Telescopes/ If you...
Hi Christopher, ... Meade Customer Support told me that I've to send them the mount of the telescope so they can check it and repair it. The motor drive of the...
Meade has gotten picky about having customers do part of the repair work themselves, since scopes have gotten more complicated over the years, so now they...
Before going further I would suggest finding a local electronics service technician. There is an excellent chance the board can be repaired locally and not...
Actually my homemade dew heater and homemade dew shield were the high point of the evening. They worked great. I even got a decent image of Mars (for the...
From the observing field, none the less. Sure is nice to have wi-fi on the field. It's super to be able to pull up a poss plate with Skytools or Astroplanner...
New Autostar 497 firmware v4.0eF is posted at Meade: http://www.meade.com/support/auto.html Clay ... Dr. P. Clay Sherrod Arkansas Sky Observatories Harvard MPC...
FYI... I have a couple of prototypes of the kit installed and working fine in my mounts. I've also been able to secure some custom made / machined pulleys for...
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Interesting idea, but it seems like an awful lot of time, effort, and risk to modify a low/mid-end GEM that performs pretty well as-is. Not to rain on your...
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Does Meade post the changes to each firmware revision somewhere? Thanks, Dave ETX-90PE [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Once you have downloaded the firmware there is a Read Me file (after unzipped) that describes each version's revisions. Dr. Clay ... Arkansas Sky Observatories...
Hello Group, I want to purchase a guide scope but, I don't no what to look for other than quality optics. What apature? What F-ratio?, 90 degree or straight...
... G'day Y'all On the 8" I use the ED80 refractor a great little affordable scope with a 2" diagonal am installing the moonlite CF1-s focuser as well Robert...
If you are looking purely for a guide scope, getting a used ETX90 OTA would be great. While you have a much narrower FOV, the ability of the DSI to taken any...
Steve, Did you do anything provide a mirroe lock to the ETX90? -Marcus http://jatobservatory.org ... OTA would be great. While you have a much narrower FOV,...
You should look for qualities that mean superior imaging: An increased focal length so as to give higher magnification than the best configuration of your...
Rather than using extreme magnification, you can just keep the star centered on one corner of the box. Older illuminated reticle EPs didn't have the double ...
hi i cant answer your questions as i dont have a guiding scope, thats the reason i bought a self guiding sbig camera. but you can ask the folks at the dsi...
Hello everyone, please to meet you, i'm Jonathan i currently own a LX200 GPS 12" and a month ago i had a "little problem" with it, i own it for a year now and...
... I think you may have received notes on this in another group, but if not, let me restate those sentiments here. The most likely reason for odd behavior in...
Hi, thank you for your advice on the power supply, i run the telescope with electricity but it is by the country side so it will not be enough sometimes i...
