Ah, I see (yup, I am using your ACP with it). Ver 1.2 - can't wait! I'm
still experimenting with the s/ware at the mo, but I'll certainly apply 1.2
& try again.

Cheers for the input. Starry Night Pro - I didn't think this was out yet;
certainly the web site doesn't mention it.

Re the time settings - I was 1 minute out from real-time on both the PC and
the 'scope. I would think that the difference here would be smaller that I
saw - but it's good to see so many people willing to help out! As a
newcomer to the LX200, it's appreciated!

Cheers all,

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 2:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [M]: LX200 alignment
>
> Mike, et. al. --
>
> I assume you're using my program Astronomer's Control Panel with Starry
> Night to control your LX-200. There is a bug in ACP 1.1SP2 that causes
> daylight time to be incorrectly applied to the scope. It is fixed in 1.2
> which will be out within a day or two :-)
>
> When you use Starry Night, it has the right time and computes the right
> position for the Moon. However, ACP loads the wrong UTC offset (standard
> time offset) into the scope when it starts (part of ACP's "site" support)
> so the scope computes the wrong place for the Moon. The Moon is most
> affected because it's angular motion is much faster than anything else.
>
> The ACP Knowledge Base has an atricle briefly explaining the problem:
>
> http://support.dc3.com/wsx/$webstar.exe/prob?40
>
> Once you have ACP connected to the scope, update the scope time from the
> PC. Then go to the handbox and change the UTC offset to the correct value
> for your time zone and daylight time. My apologies for this.. as I noted,
> it's fixed in 1.2, and you'll be able to get 1.2 by the end of this week.
>
> Check out Sienna's new Starry Night Pro too. It's awesome!
>
> -- Bob

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