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Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:56 PM
Subject: [M]: but not the planets!


> Finally getting there! Although I have had my LX200 since their
beginning,
> only last March did I get a wedge. The skills of alignment have to be
> learned and I have had some problems. Last night I got a great
> improvement, so today at 9am, with the sun blazing in the east I dialled
> Jupiter. After a long time searching the field and moving a little E and
> W, I was about to give up when I noticed a lighter area in the FOV.
> Re-focusing, of course it was Jupiter! After syncing, I tried Saturn and
> with little further effort I found it - to my amazement! Never before
have
> I seen Saturn in daylight.
>
> Later I dialled and found Venus and was suitably impressed.
>
> My puzzle is this: last night I was able to dial whatever Messier objects
I
> wished, and they were all placed centrally in the field. However, Mars
> could not be found at all. My suspicion is that the planets are not
always
> being calculated correctly. I have checked time etc; all is fine for the
> Messiers, so is there something adrift with the planets in the earliest
> ROMS?
>
> regards
>
> Lawrence Harris
>

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