Bill,
The Meade Manual (exceptionally well organized as it is!!!) states that
the GMT offset for DST in the Eastern Time Zone is +4. Am I missing
something or should I make it +3?
Thanks,
Adi

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, William R Wood wrote:

> Adi
> I just got my LX200 and have no problems getting objects in the FOV of a
> 26mm EP using a casual 2 star AltAz alignment. From your post it looks like
> you will be fine if you redo your basic settings. The Meade manual says get
> your Lat/Long numbers within 1 or 2 minutes. You can get these values
> exactly off any of the many Lat/Long sites listed on MAPUG website. I used
> Geocode.com and it works perfectly. Then the manual says put in your local
> time to within 5 seconds using any of the many atomic clock sites on the
> web. I use SyncitwithAtom avail from Tolvanen.com which is a utility that
> automatically syncronizes your computer clock to the atomic clock and keeps
> it set perfectly to well under a second at all times. Then set your GMT
> offset correctly. I dont know where you live but if you are in the US
> Eastern time zone the correct offset now is +3 since its daylight savings
> time. Your post says you used +4 which is incorrect. Finally make sure you
> have the correct date entered.
>
> I believe these basics will get your results where you want them using a
> casual 2 star alignment. Note that this sort of casual alignment will give
> you pointing accuracy to within a few arc minutes. If you want better
> accuracy to a tolerance of 2 arc minutes, do a critical alignment as per the
> instructions on page 19 of the Meade manual which essentially consists of
> using a reticle EP to exactly center the alignment stars in addition to
> using exact position, time and date info. According to the manual you can
> even get 1 minute pointing accuracy using High Precision mode but this
> certainly is not necessary for visual use.
>
> Good luck
>
> Bill Wood
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Aditya Damodaran
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:05 PM
> Subject: [M]: LX200 GOTO Problems part II!
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm really jealous of all the people getting great Goto accuracy on their
> new scopes! I for one am still struggling. I tried again today with a GMT
> offset of +4 for EDT and put in my location correctly too and the only
> thing that I wasnt extremely accurate about was the time which i suspect
> was plus or minus 5 minutes. I did the two star alignment on Deneb and
> Spica and noticed that even so, it still couldnt center Polaris altho it
> came close. However with time the errors grew larger and larger and I just
> dont understand it. Objects close to the alignment stars are in the FOV if
> I do a GOTO but Objects which are slightly far away from Both alignment
> stars arent even in the FOV and need some adjustment to get them there
> usually in RA. I am using a plain jane 10" scope with the standard
> eyepiece (SP25mm). Please advise. Newbie in distress!
> Thanks,
> Adi
>
>
>
>

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