At 7:20 PM -0400 5/13/99, James C Kernohan wrote:
>All,
>
>I made a terrible mistake recently and left my LX-200 "on" and tracking
>Mars after I left my small observatory. I discovered the problem three
>days later with the scope strangled by the Dec controll cord....

You would think with all the CPU power available that it could figure
out to stop tracking when it gets below the horizon :-( It knows not
to GOTO an object below the horizon, after all!

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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