>>...Gps accuracy not that good unless you have access to military units.
>
>Sure it is. Civilian GPS is good to 100 *meters*, far better than the
>LX200 needs for setting up its known locations. (And fortunately, despite
>the objections of the Pentagon, the military grade signal will become
>universally available in a few years, anyway.)
>
>But a GPS isn't a compass, it won't tell you which way is north and hence
>won't tell you what direction your OTA is pointing, which *is* what is
>needed here.
>---
>Bill Arnett

My cheap little GPS (DeLorme) sure knows which way it's pointing. I presume
direction is a software function, as the GPS tracks the position of several
GPS satellite locations. Now again, I don't know how accurately it tracks
its rotational angle against, but if the receiver (antenna?) was mounted
the the OTA, couldn't the directional info be used to remotely align the
scope? And perhaps the dec could be determined with a mercury level? These
might be cheap solutions, if they are accurate enough, and software made
the data available to the scope (or at least to the remote user who could
send them to the scope).

Chris Margaritis

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