Hi, has anyone out there experience with proportional joysticks (the harder you push, the faster the telescope slews)? I would like to know brand, which...
Gday Hendrik ... I wrote one for my PEC Editing App ( its still in there ) It works semi reasonably on an LX200, but its much harder for a 497 as you are...
Larry, Glad I could help! I will have to check out PHD, I hear a lot of great things about it! I know what you mean about stepping up to a larger camera, I...
Hi All, A quick follow-up to my last post. I was wondering about the ability to cover large CCD's with the LX90. I'm thinking of both DSLR or the larger Sony...
I'm kind of jumping in here cold, not haveing seen your prior discussion. And my experience is with smaller CCD chips. If you have a 10" or 12" scope with an...
DSLR's are common with many different types of scopes! and I would suspect vignetting is apparent with every scope/ccd combination but it only takes a few...
Hi Pete, On your calculation (0.945"), then a comparitive CCD size (in this case for an Olympus e500 DSLR, with a chip size of 17.3 x 13.0 mm) of 0.85"...
I use the 43Eg firmware patched with 43gg21 from Dick Seymour with the option of "Parksideways" (Dec=0 pointing East). I've seen in the files section of the...
... Umm... it would help a LOT to hear what the error messages -say-. Also, are you using StarPatch or StarMod? ... My -guess- was that you're not adjusting...
Gday Fernando/Dick Just for info, i rewrote the parking patch to try and fix a few other bugs, and make the data layout a bit more user friendly. This rewrite...
Dick/Andrew, Many thanks! As usual, both of you are a great help. If I correctly understand, with the new version of the patch.. Can I use both options...
Gday Fernando ... Yes If you just want a simple park at DEC = 0 and/or HA = 6hrs just select the "ParkZero" and "ParkSideways" options If you want to manually...
Thanks Andrew. I've edited the spf file and will test this weekend. As it could serve as a help for others, I post at the end of this message how it looks for...
Gday Fernando ... Brave Lad :-) ... I dont think it will hurt, but i just kept 5deg short 179d59m should work, but if it does play up, just use 179deg ... Even...
Although I haven't had any serious problems with my scope in its nine year life, I wonder if my "system" of storage is common, overdone, underdone, or...
It will stand the cold very well (better than you). The handbox display won't work much below freezing so you will need to warm it up before you try to use...
... I used to strap a hand-warmer to the back of my handbox. Works well in -18C Prague winters. Fortunately I now live in slightly warmer south-west Germany...
... I appreciate the advice on keeping the autostar warm, but I detach it after each session and keep it in its own padded box in my ep case which i bring...
Hi Ken, I use very short 'stub' cables at each end of the HBX (handbox cable). They were easy to make, but then I'm an ex-IT support manager (worked my way up...
I used to leave outside the tripod and wedge, taking on and off the scope from the wedge every session. I was feeling every time the risk of getting the scope...
Hi all! I have some questions. If someone uses TheSky6 and the LX90 classic : a) in order to connect should use on Telescope Setup "Autostar by Meade...
... If those are the "proprietary" commands (versus the ASCOM interface) i can't speak from experience... but the LX90 can perform operations (such as PARK)...
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