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  • Category: Amateur
  • Founded: Aug 19, 2000
  • Language: English
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The International Meade LX90 Telescope Users Group (IMLTUG)

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This group is for new, prospective and current owners of Meade's LX90 SCT GOTO telescopes or anyone else interested in GOTO astronomy.

The current guidelines for members can be viewed online at: http://www.nabu.net/astro/IMLTUG.txt

*IMPORTANT* To reduce spam membership must be approved by a moderator. Please read the email (including any attachment) that you receive as a result of your request to join the Group and respond as indicated.

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Re: weird goto behavior
I just did the check. Fairly easy operation.. At first I tried to move the worm block but it was stuck..a little pressure and it moved as expected (possible
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 3:47 pm
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Re: weird goto behavior
... Yes. ... No. In Meade's usage, "SmartDrive" is PEC, and SmartMount is similar to T-point. ... good luck --dick
Posted - Mon Feb 8, 2010 7:50 am
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Re: weird goto behavior
Hi Ifikratis, I owned a LX90GPS before and had the same problem 1 to 1.5 minute mispointing for GOTO's, I use also high precision to overcome this. Mechanical
Posted - Sun Feb 7, 2010 1:49 pm
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Re: weird goto behavior
Thank you again Dick! I suppose SMT means Smartmount? I thought that smartmount does the pec training. Please, I would be pleased to inform me about that
Posted - Sun Feb 7, 2010 11:58 am
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Re: weird goto behavior
... Not necessarily true... if the subsequent motions "loaded" the gears *in the same direction* as the previous motion, then the error would not increase (if
Posted - Sun Feb 7, 2010 5:50 am
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