How about if I mention this again. Has anyone thought about the IR
affecting film or CCD ? For instance, take your remote control for a
television and flick it about while you have an image exposing. It really
shows up on a CCD....






>Greetings List,
>
>Recently there was some discussion regarding controlling the LX200 via a
>infrared hand controller. I missed some of the discussion and maybe I
>missed the original idea/suggestion. I'm using an IBM Thinkpad Laptop
>to control my LX200 with TheSky, Pview and NGCview. The Thinkpad has an
>IR port but I haven't utilized it yet. I would imagine that once the
>laptop is connected to the LX200 a simple IR hand controller would
>illuminate the "tied down" feeling one gets by using the standard
>keypad. There would still be a lot of wires about, but once configured,
>the hand controller could control focus, slewing, synching and with
>Pview running the controller could handle the CCD commands for
>autoguiding/imaging. All wireless of course. Now, all we will need is
>some sort of IR hand controller that can be programmed. Any ideas?
>This sounds like a great project for the spring.
>
>
>
>Clear Skies to the List.
>
>
>
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