Kris,

In your Telescope setup, do you have it set to "Alt/Az" or "Polar" mode?

Just grasping at straws here, I have done some really unconcious things
sometimes in my setups.

John of
John & Bobbie Hilliard

"Sanity is the playground of the unimaginative"
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Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:08 AM
Subject: [M]: LX200 align/slew


> Okay, big question that maybe I'm just not getting. The manual is not
clear
> at all about this.
>
> Last night I did a 1-star alt-az alignment with Vega. My base was
level...I
> had used my reticule eyepiece to center the star. I slewed to some stars
> and was off some...not sure how much since I'm still new to this...I'm
> thinking of trying tonight again, but this time will hopefully be able to
do
> a 2star align. I didn't have a whole lot of time last night but wanted
to
> view the moon...and did a sketch that I will share as soon as I scan it
in
> and identify the craters...anyway...
>
> My big questions are...
>
> 1) In AltAz mode, does the LX200 track...or automatically slew the scope
to
> keep up with the object being viewed? Is there something I push to have
it
> do that?
>
> 2) If it does do that, then why use the wedge(I have the Meade
Superwedge)?
>
> i guess I'm getting tired of having to follow the moon with the
keypad...and
> the stars...or finding a binary pair and running in to get the wife out
only
> to have to find it again. Plus, I'm getting pretty confident with my
camera
> enough to want to take photos but since it still takes a while to find
> everything on my camera I don't want to have to worry about finding
things
> again.
>
> The questions are also all time sensitive with Mars coming so close to us
> and me wanting it to be my first serious planetary astrophoto.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 9:55 AM
> Subject: [AG] LX200 align/slew
>
>
> >
> >Okay, question for all the LX200 12" owners out there...or any other
> >LX mounts...when you do the 1 or 2 star alignment...you get better
> >accuracy slewing with 3, not 4 right?
>
>
> I set the slew speed from 6 down to 3 for a couple of reasons: a) it
> is better on the motors vis-a-vis MAPUGish wisdom, b) it is not as
> loud (in fact, now my electric focuser makes more noise).
>
> As far as I know, this has no effect on slewing accuracy, but I could
> have missed something too. For setting alignment stars, I usually do
> my best eyeballing the star in dead-center of the field of view.
>
> I did try using my reticle eyepiece to precisely center Polaris and
> the other alignment star the LX200 chooses for you in Polar
> alignments. That was the best alignment I have ever had. I'm not
> sure I would have even needed to do a drift align if I had wanted to
> do imaging that night.
>
> Leroy
>
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