William Cunningham wrote:

> Hey, since you got that part [f number of LX200 ] right, can you tell me if there is supposed
> to be any noise coming from the RA bearings? Mine makes a slight "tooth
> chatter" noise during mechanical and electrical rotation. Is this
> supposed to be a completely silent bearing?

>

No, I don't have any "tooth chatter" on my scope, which is pretty new.

BTW, I'm using a program called ECU (Earth Centered Universe) on my notebook attached to the LX200. It's a planetarium
program, and when hooked up allows you literally to point (with mouse) and click to move the scope to a given star, planet,
deep sky object, etc. Much handier than looking up star numbers, etc., in the LX200 manual. Try

http://www.nova-astro.com/

There are several other such programs (Software Bisque's The Sky is the best known). But they're expensive; ECU is only $50
and is quite adequate for my purposes.



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