If you are properly drift aligned all you have to do is sync on a star
and the
LX200 will know precisely where it is. However, I don't know if the
LX200 clock is automatically reset based on your location data, if not
it
should be.

>Sent: July 31, 2001 3:03 AM
>Subject: [M]: LX200 Start position


> Dear co-listers,
>
> Just a curiosity. I always switch on the equatorial-mounted 10" LX200
in
>the position RA=00 and DEC=00, so it aims to the equator/meridian cross

>point in the sky. In theory the telescope should be close-to-synch with
some
>random error due to the fact that I put those coordinates "by eye". For

>instance this nigths I use Vega for this sync purpose. However I am
noticing
>that the error is not at all random but it is repeateable and always
equals
>to about 35min too East and about 36' too North.
>
> Does anybody know an explanation for this?
>
> It is not causing any trouble because I just push W key until Vega is
in
the viewfinder, then a little S to get it dead center, then Vega is
always
in the CCD at f/3.3
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Fernando
> Madrid
>

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