Considering this thread has been 'beaten to death', has anyone checked out
the website of Jerry Gunn and Chuck Lamb? I think they have solved most of
the problems posed in thsi thread. Their site can be reached at
http://www.mtco.com/~jgunn/

Regards,
Don Holcombe
Katy, TX
http://www.flash.net/~donholco/index.html


-----Original Message-----
Date: Saturday, November 21, 1998 6:53 PM
Subject: [M]: Remotely Operating the LX 200


>What is needed is an external ACCURATE way to index the scope to a known
>position..... any position. If that position was known, you could do a
>SYNC on the known position and be off to the races. But it would have to
>be really accurate.
>
>Paul Goelz
>Rochester Hills, MI
>pgoelz at eaglequest dot com
>
>It seems to me that I read somewhare that the LX200 assumes it is at 90
>degrees dec. and 0 degrees RA when powered up in polar mode. If we were to
>put a video camera on a carfully alligned wide field guidescope, we could
>then slew to Polaris, which should be in the vacinity if we shut off the
>scope at that position the last time we used it. Then we use the CENTER
key
>to offset Polaris by the proper amount for the date & time of year. The
>video camera would be looking through an illuminated "Polaris alignment
>Reticle" like the kind found on the Celestron finders. Now sync on Polaris
>and you are good-to-go.
>
>Will this work?
>
>Chris Frye
>Silver Spring, MD.
>

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