Fred-

I wouldn't accept many pinholes in your solar filter if it is new. I
have a 10" filter from Solar Oaks with no pinholes.

Andy

Fred Herrmann wrote:
>
> By regular alignment your talking leveling and pointing North before
> turn-on? Since I've got the laptop out anyway as you suggested I plan on
> using skyglobe and simply slewing to the RA and Dec. I've only had a couple
> hours of experience with the LX200, and I found that finding the sharpest
> shadow on my rough driveway wasn't that easy.. I also had some reflections
> in the eyepiece that I think were coming from small pinholes in the filter.
> I took care of most of the pinholes with whiteout.
>
> Thanx,,
>
> Fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 6:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [M]: LX200 Solar GOTO... Fact or fiction?
>
> >At 5:21 PM -0500 6/29/99, Fred Herrmann wrote:
> >I've heard that there is an undocumented Solar GOTO in the latest
> >3.34L version. Anyone know the magic commands?
> >
> >
> >It doesn't exist. It seemed to for a while but it was just an
> >accident of the fact that the Sun was near RA=0, Dec=0 at that time.
> >If you want to GOTO the Sun, do a regular alignment, look up the
> >Sun's RA and Dec and GOTO that way. (But that's hardly worth the
> >effort; the Sun is easy to find manually.)
> >
> >
> >Bill Arnett
> >http://www.seds.org/billa/
> > "Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself." -- Richard Feynman
> >

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