At 05:25 PM 1/5/98 EST, you wrote:
>I think this may be a natural progression for the group. If not please
>respond via private e-mail. Thanks JOHN
>
>I would like to place the LX200 with CCD outside and control both the
>telescope and imaging from the WARM inside.

Hi John and others.

made "wheely bars" kept in the garage when not in use. Here are some
suggestions that come from the past nine months of working with the system:

1. get a good program like Guide 6.0, Megastar(I can't get this one to work
yet), Earth Centered Universe, that are designed to control the LX-200.

2. leave the hand paddle outside with the telescope. This way you can
control the telescope from both places. Doc G is quite correct that the
cable for the hand paddle is straight through. It is like the handset in
your telephone not like the cable that connects the phone to the wall.

3. Go outside and do the two star alignment at the scope with the hand
paddle. Then go to the area of the sky where you are going to image and
sync on one of the nearby reference stars or planets. Don't use the moon!
It has too much parallax. Also don't sync on extended M-objects.

4. Once the telescope is synced on a location you can control things from
inside. Even small motions can be made with several of the programs that
will run the LX-200. I regularly take images for 4 or 5 hours without any
problems even when slewing 90 degrees between objects and seldom find the
new object more than 2 or three arc minutes from the center of the CCD image.

Bob Elliott

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