>Bill Arnett... you wrote of a slight glitch or bug in the firmware but didn't
>specify what it is. What is it that you found??

In altaz mode, try to GOTO some object close to but above the
southern horizon. AFAIK, the smaller LX200s work fine but the 4.34
ROMs give the error (approximately) "would hit fork". This is
correct *in polar mode* since the 12" is too long to fit thru the
fork. But it is clearly bogus in altaz mode. Of course, this
happens with my favorite Deep South object, NGC 5139, which is just
barely above the horizon here in the spring. Noting the RA/Dec from
the display and then slewing there manually works fine.

Bill Arnett
http://www.seds.org/billa/
"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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