Happy New Year Everyone! Messier Marathon is only 1 season away. I have owned scopes now for 30 years. Most just garage sale items that I fixed up to be better...
... That is incorrect. The Autostar only talks to Meade motor units (which happen to have an analog motor, along with a PIC chip to convert the Autostar's...
Several years ago after a family raising hiatus, I returned to astronomy. My first scope back was an 114EQ-DH4. As aperture fever took hold, I moved up to...
Hello I have a few questions. I have an Orion Astroview 120ST with the stock EQ-3 mount. I did a search on this and didn't find any useful information so I am...
Hi, Ray, As far as I can tell from advertisement photographs, the mount is an EQ3-2. I modded mine over four years ago using Meade DS motors and Autostar 497,...
Hello: I got two engines of a LXD75 and he coupled to the EQ5 being axes endless toothed crowns of some 35 teeth and 29.6 mm in diameter and which are of the...
If I understand correctly what you are saying, you believe that your mount's pointing accuracy is lower than you think it should be. When you say "finder", do...
The normal LXD-55/75 spur gears ratio is 35:37. If you have substituted a 35 tooth gear in place of where Meade uses a 37 tooth gear, you will have to change...
The normal Meade configuration is for the 35 tooth spur gear to be on the motor and the 37 tooth spur gear to be on the mount's worm drive shaft, making for a...
I have the 35 tooth spur gear placed on the mount's worm drive shaft. _____ De: RoboScope@yahoogroups.com [mailto:RoboScope@yahoogroups.com] En nombre de...
Thank you for your help, the problem was that it had installed two spurs gears of 35 teeth. I understand that I only have to change to the ratio of the engine...
Yes, change both axis ratios to 2.40000 and you should be fine. Let us know how it works out. -Christopher Erickson ... From: acrab67 <alkes@...> Date:...
OK _____ De: RoboScope@yahoogroups.com [mailto:RoboScope@yahoogroups.com] En nombre de Christopher Erickson Enviado el: martes, 08 de enero de 2008 19:39 Para:...
I used similar stuff for glueing resistors to the back of my Newts secondary to avoid dewing - it has good thermal conductivity so helps to spread the heat...
You can check out the Yahoo pictogoto group (Spanish) where a mircoprocessor controller and software has been developed to give goto capability to the Synta...
Hi, this is my first post to this group, my name is Aaron and I'm from the UK, I have an 18 mth old Orion Skyview Pro EQ mount with the Intelliscope Upgrade...
I think it should work just fine. "My advice is always free and worth every penny!" -Christopher Erickson Network Design Engineer 5432 E. Northern Lights...
Hello, The pound shop across the street from my office have a Meade electronic digital series 80mm (I think) mount and OTA. They do not have the hand...
The little 80mm (if in good condition) is not a bad little grab and go scope or guide scope. I had several in our group and after replacing the crappy...
... ["it" being a DS-80] No... not at all. (the GPS handcontroller has no brains, and only a 4-wire connection. The ETX/DS-80 puts the Autostar into the...
Hi, This is my first post here, so please bear with me. I tried to search in this group for mods done with the ETX but did not find any joy. Has anyone done a...
