At 07:00 PM 1/7/98 -0500, Gene wrote:

>>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.

Ouch...... My image exposures are on the order of one minute -- not 4 or 5
hours!!!
I just observe for 4 or 5 hours at a stretch without having problems of
finding objects in the 30' x 20' fov. Also I try to get most images at an
azimuth of 90 or 270 degrees as the field rotation is near zero at those
locations. So far all of my imaging is in the alti- azi mode.

Bob Elliott

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