>...
>My UTC offset is +8.0 hours

Right. PST = UT - 8.

>and I am currently in pacific daylight time. I
>think that puts me at +9.0 hours offset from the UTC. ...

Nope. PDT = UT - 7. The LX200 wants it to be input as +7 but C-Sat
probably wants -7 and certainly not +/-9.

This always confuses me. It would have been a lot easier if the
Earth really was flat :-)

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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