... to ... wedge, ... get ... would ... I have the same setup as you have. If you want longer exposures, you are going to have to invest in a cooled,...
Thanks, I was looking at thpose SBIG cameras and will consider them, but I think they are a bit too expensive for now. I was reading about piggybacking a...
Hi, Danny, Have a look at how Janet Miller piggybacked an 80 mm refractor - http://jan.eaglecreekobservatory.org/losmandy.html Might give you some ideas. An...
Ifikratis, Ah, ok, understood. If interested, I can do a quick mod to the 909 clone's ASCOM driver to talk lx200 classic commands versus the clones native "Mg"...
Ifikratis, I did not read the description closely enough. You may be able to use the clones USB driver directly, if it does not find the clone it talks to the...
Dear Gene, Thanks very much! I need some time I think to understand how your driver works, and I don't know if it would be able to work with my autoguider...
Ifikratis, The driver presents an ASCOM 'Telescope' driver to PHD. This driver allows you to set the comm port, which would be the comm port presented by your...
Dear Gene, I'll forward that to the "autoguide commander" creator, and let you know. The autoguide commander connects via usb with the pc. It works on LX200...
If the unit uses the standard ASCOM Meade driver it needs to respond to the 0x6 command, in addition to many others. It would take less time to try it than...
Hi Peter, Love your website. Hope to get to that level one day. Yeah so I mixed up the HP and PEC. I will start using HP and see if it helps the tracking....
Hi All, I've been trying to resolve this anomaly for some time now but seem to have isolated the problem to the folowing conditions: a) low temperature and b)...
... Before I read your post the creator had replied to my email and told me that his device can work also via the driver "Vixen SkySensor 2000" available for...
Critical data missing: Polar or Alt/Az? and -which- subsections of the patch kit have you selected? (if you have an LX-90, you should NOT be choosing "909APM...
Ifikratis, Thanks for the kudos! Do you like the extea bells and whistles (flashing LED's on the GUI when guiding)? May want to turn them off for serious...
"(if you have an LX-90, you should NOT be choosing ... Uness you have one of the newer lx90's GPS's with different motor board types :-( Gene ... seem to ... ...
I recently acquired an used LX 90 8" EMC (I don't know their year neither what "EMC" means). I read somewhere that to autoguide this scope it's necessary the...
you mean the leds are on when guiding? yes..it does it anyway as far as I know. Gene, I had the dolder extracted in my desktop, and I deleted the folder. I...
The program was for test only. I had not updated the unregister.bat file to handle the new file names (from the 909 clone version). Extract to someplace and...
Gene, it didn't worked..also I accidentaly clicked first the "scopefor909guide" and it appeared on the ascom driver list..but never mind I can connect to the...
Ificratis, Ok, glad to see things are moving forward with the Vixen driver. The 'ScopeFor909Guide is from the project website and the 909 clone. The direct...
Looking to counter-balance acessories on lx90-8". DEC clutch will not maintain scope position with DSLR attached. I have ordered Peterson engineering clutch...
Hi Lee, I went with 2 sets of Losmandy - one on either side of OTM. This gives excellent balance in both axes on my LX90 8". I have microfocusser and heavy...
Can you connect the APM 909 after the scope has gone through an alignment procedure? Is it recognized and can it accept guide commands from a Shoestring GPUSB...
Sure is! If you want to keep the test driver, ignore items in the following that specify "ScopeForGuideOnlyGC" in the name Open regedit and navigate down to: ...
Thanks again Gene! nice work! :) ... http://home.comcast.net/~lynol1000/drivers/ascom_scope_for_guide_onlyGC_1.zip ... re-extracted the ... But now ... to load...
Dear Danny The best explanation I have found for what you are trying to do is in the following: 1. Digital SLR Astrophotography by Michael A Covington; and 2....
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