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Subject: Re: LX200: illegal goto
From: Bill Arnett
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Sun Apr 21 01:22:16 1996

At 12:03 AM 4/21/96, Robert Preston wrote:
>>......My LX200 was set up in altaz mode. I confidently punched it up
>>on the keypad but when I hit GOTO it said (approximately) "illegal goto,
>>would hit base"........
>
>That implies that the "site" was set at 50 or 60 deg N latitude, right?
>(i.e., enough to put omega cen. far enough below the horizon to crash the
>OTA into the base). That might be possible since you were a two day drive
>south of your normal site, and that might be enough latitude to do it.
>So, did you not remember to change the "site" information?

Yes, in fact I had just set it with my nifty new portable GPS receiver (lat
was about 32N). Omega Cen was clearly visible and the correct RA and Dec
showed on the keypad after manual slewing. Note, too, that it did NOT say
"object below the horizon".

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Bill Arnett                 "Science is a way of trying
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