Mapuggers,

Finally got my guiding rig assembled. I am using a
90mm ETX with the 216 piggybacked on top of my
10"LX200. My main imager is a CB245.

I got the camera and PC to talk - Meade deserves to
be congratulated on the much improved Pictor sw.

I would like to use Pictor's guiding functions. How
well does the sw guide on the brightest object or the
user selected object. I have an older manual and some
of the things are not very well described.

I do not wish to use the automosaicing and focussing
so do I need to have a comm cable between the scope
and computer If I want to autoguide using the sw? The
manual says to have an additional cable when using the
LX200 but I do not see why this is necessary unless
the sw guides via sending commands to the scope's
rs232 port.

Any other helpful suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike




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Mike Fleenor

Fleenor Observatory
http://user.icx.net/~mfleenor/observatory/observatory_index.html

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