John, If you fit the Peterson EZ Focus upgrade to your LX90, then focus 'slop' will be a thing of the past. I don't even refocus the scope from one viewing...
Hi Niall, ... I didnt realise they did one ! Am hoping to upgrade to a 10 inch LX90 very shortly so I'll look at that option then :O) John ... From:...
Even Peterson admits that his kit won't do much to eliminate mirror flop: <http://petersonengineering.com/sky/what_does_it_fix.htm> It fixes (most of the)...
As promised, Dr Clays link. If anyone else had posted this I would have ignored. Off to HeavensAbove to see what they have. Carl ... From: P. Clay Sherrod...
Can any one give me the time it will begin entry relative to California. Greg ... From: Carl Farnsworth <stairsatstars@...> Subject: [satellitetracker]...
Go to http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0 to see what UTC is right now. This will tell you when the event will occur. right now (as of this posting) UTC...
The NASA and JPL sites are swamped if you are looking for info on tonights impact! ... From: Adam To: satellitetracker@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October...
Hi everyone, I'm new to the field of satellite tracking, and have been trying to set up a Celestron CGE mount with a 14 inch telescope to do my tracking. I...
... telescope mount model that will correct for the pointing error of my mount, but it looks like it's built to run mainly with TheSky. ... Satellite Tracker...
Sat Tracker merely tells the scope where to point (or how fast to move). It's up to the scope to make any adjustments to it's "pointing model" (if it has that...
T-point does need TheSky to be able to correct where the telescope is being commanded to by a GOTO command from within TheSky. Its a shame that TheSky does...
TPoint works only with TheSky. However EDMODLX and MaxPoint is worth trying. I doubt though that EDMODLX would work without any modifications. Once I tried...
Why a bad idea? My Atlas EQ-G works just fine with Satellite Tracker and EQMODLX. Jim In a message dated 10/17/2008 4:28:48 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, ...
Adam, I agree with Jim, my GEM's (a G-11 and an old Starliner) both work really well with Sat Tracker. The only think I end up watching out for is to not have...
Alt-az mounts can't track near the zenith. So that's the last thing you'd want to use for a really nice, overhead pass. EQ mounts have the same problem near...
Chris, You are quite right about not getting too close to "dobson's hole", but its a factor of how fast the mount can move in Azimuth. My mount moves at a...
I think it's just the meridian flip problem on a GEM- right at the best part of a pass. Of course an alt-az scope may do effectively the same thing if the pass...
... If you're using the EQ(I forgot the acronym) thing that converts LX200 classic signals to ASCOM, then ST is just sending goto commands to the current...
... pass crosses the meridian north of the zenith (and in polar mode, if the pass crosses north "under" the pole) due to anti-cord wrap features built into...
I have a LX200 classic, mounted equatorially. I've never tried to track something close enough to Polaris to have a problem, but that will affect any EQ scope...
... No, I'm pretty sure his is a classic. And when he said equatorial mode (on a wedge) is better, he was talking specifically about the best (highest) passes,...
I have done a couple of attempts of tracking the ISS with my Celestron CPC1100 and my wife's laptop without much success. I think I may have found one of the...
Darwin Teague
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If you can get your computer to update it's time from a GPS it'll be about as accurate as you can get. ... What's the best way to get accurate time? ...
Assuming you have done an accurate alignment (or with a permanent mount kept the scope powered up or parked), keep the "Timing offset" from session to session....
... That's somewhat worse than I'd expect, but not terrible. And those "atomic clocks" sold for home use usually only check their time (against the shortwave...
... a problem,... ... of their behavior near the poles;... ... Hi Chris, I mentioned John's letter that the Classic "unwinds" the cables when passing "under...
Hi Leo- I'm not sure about this "unwinding" behavior you (or John) are describing. I've never observed it with my Classic. I image all the time, sometimes not ...
Actually it was your Atomic Clock that was off... These so called atomic clocks only sync their time to the radio signal once a day... usually at night when...
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