Hi, Don, If you can fairly accurately set your mount to 20 degrees above level as your starting point, here's a suggestion: I've only just thought of it, and...
Aaagh! Wrong way. Now my brain is hurting!! Set the Autostar to 20 degrees LESS than your latitude! So 45 becomes 25. Your mount at 20 degrees starting...
Hi there ! I want to add goto to a little dobson (150 F/D:6 max or 114-130/900). Could the Meade #493 kit be a good solution ? (it has 2 motors for DS series...
Would it be possible to set up the mount in polar configuration? "My advice is free and worth every penny!" -Christopher Erickson Network Design Engineer 5432...
That should be in the message archives somewhere. "My advice is free and worth every penny!" -Christopher Erickson Network Design Engineer 5432 E. Northern...
It would be possible. Larger scopes have been done. Check out the photos section of the RoboScope home page. "My advice is free and worth every penny!" ...
... Actually, I had a conversation with a Meade Engineer a couple of years ago, and he confirmed that the 495s had smaller user memory chips chips in them so...
I guess that is possible but I have literally been inside of nearly 100 495 Autostars and not one of them had smaller memory chips. Every single last one was a...
... Hi Christopher, I proposed swapping the EEPROMS to the Engineer (I didn't know the contents of the autostar at that time) for larger ones to accomodate the...
... to ... Ah...MIPS on Demand.... Tell me you're an old CE? <G> Hard to find Big Iron Workers these days... Don't get technical on me...ask Erickson...I'm as...
... I realize that you're quoting what was told to you by a Meade source. That source might've been quoting the "company line" (as they're quite likely...
... Nope, and Yep !!! I'm an old System Programmer (IBM = PSR), and I go back to the 1401, 1440, 1170, S/360 days. I still work on Big Iron (Blue type, ...
too massive, Chris. If a "two-star" init is used, would that help? Maybe not, because there is no initial reference. The angles are all essentially measured...
... Hi Dick, Thanks for the pointers. It was some interesting reading. I can confirm that the insides did look like the photo of the 497 board, however, as...
... 1401, ... CE ... Ah so.....the legacy continues! Cut my teeth on a 4341-M1, and the rest, as they say, really hurts my brain... Spent a lot of time with my...
... real. ... a ... I got you beat, I think. As a student, I helped upgrade an S360m40 to S360m44.. doubled the toroidal core memory to 512k as I recall. Ran...
Actually it is a little known fact that boxes of rocks and bags of hammers actually contain a lot of air too! (grin) Watch out for Tom. He plays the doofus to...
Hi... Meade has posted version 32Ea of the 497 firmware. http://www.meade.com/support/auto/Build.zip And it adds PEC to ***all*** Polar-mountable Autostarred...
I don't think a "two star" alignment would help. Maybe if you have clutches, release them and run the motors through a fake alignment routine and then GOTO a...
Sorry, guys. My first program written in machine language (no assembler) for a Bendix g-15D, thru Kim-1 to PC's. But I did take apart a System 3 once :-) Don ...
Dang...wasn't trying to one-up anyone <G> Just that its like finding a Dodo or coelacanth in this sea of client/server... Heck...I'm still just a pup! First...
I like the "lie about your latitude" answer for a first fix. You would have to tell the Autostar that you are twenty degrees -closer- to the equator than you...
Anyone converted a HEQ-5 Mount to Go To with a Meade 497 controller? I am a total novice needing guidance on how to do this. I also have a Meade Go to Mount...
... Thanks Chris ! That's exactly what I have done. And I have find a 10" dobson with the DS motors. So my porject, with a more little scope, should be...
Peter, as regards your dead 497... there is a new thread on today's LXD55 telescopes yahoo group which _appears_ to salvage a dead 497, using computer...
Thanks, Jack, but there are several LXD55 groups, and the ones I've visited don't mention the Autostar. Can you tell me the URL for the group to which you...
