At 6:32 PM +0100 4/14/99, Nigel Puttick wrote:
>...I had always assumed that guide East stopped the RA
>motor, but the manual (p26, para 5) states "the 2x sidereal speed in GUIDE
>... to make E ... adjustments ... will ... slow down the tracking drive to
>half its normal speed". In other words the RA guide corrections would
>appear to be 2x (W) and 0.5x (E). Is this correct? ...

I don't think so. You initial assumption is correct.

Bill Arnett
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"I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search
out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch
the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of
ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

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