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  • Members: 1339
  • Category: Telescopes
  • Founded: Jul 26, 2003
  • Language: English
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This group is dedicated to the Vixen Sphinx product line of telescopes and mounts, and the complementary Star Book computer and controller.

This product line, with its fantastic industrial design, amazing goto features, and surprisingly advanced features, are set to overturn the existing amateur astronomy equipment hegemony.

Vixen has long been a contender for the position of the best mass-market Japanese supplier of astronomical equipment. It's line of optical instruments has in some cases hit the perfect balance of quality to price ratio. With the new line, known as Sphinx, the leading American brands, Meade and Celestron, now have a very serious 'goto' 'scope competitor, indeed.

Post your thoughts, queries, problems and ideas.

Moderation

Posts from new members are moderated to eliminate basically all spam sent to the group. Once we confirm posters are real Vixen users, we will revise your membership to unmoderated.

Please be patient if you are a new poster as the moderators have real lives and may not get to your post immediately.

Current group owner is: peter_enzerink

Moderators are: peter_enzerink, mmlife2001, rog_jp

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Re: NexSXD controlling
Henrik, Since the Vixen SWD is essentially converted into a Celestron Mount, there are several additional ways to control the mount. It can be controlled by
Posted - Fri May 25, 2012 4:43 am
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Re: NexSXD controlling
Most people who decide to use nexremote are imaging and not really using the functionality at all except to maybe do an alignment occasionally. Others find
Posted - Thu May 24, 2012 5:33 am
Ross Salinger
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Re: NexSXD controlling
... That looks fine, although I personally think NexRemote brings nothing to the party. I'd much rather interact with the physical hand controller (HC) than
Posted - Wed May 23, 2012 1:19 pm
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Re: NexSXD controlling
I have a sketch on my photos/RDunna folder showing all connections of my setup, including remote control of camera, Ascom, PHD, StarshootAutoguider and Cartes
Posted - Mon May 21, 2012 9:41 pm
Ricardo Dunna
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Re: NexSXD controlling
Hi Henrik Yes - you must use either the hand controller or the NexRemote software. Regards, Pete
Posted - Mon May 21, 2012 8:06 am
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