Re: Poor man's GO TO?


"Holly, in France" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> Trouble is i just bought an ETX with goto and that requires knowing
>> star names...Somthing i dont know :(
>
> Once my Nextar is level, roughly pointing North and long/lat date/time
> etc are set, the goto system gets close enough to the named star for me
> to be able to centre it - does yours not do something like that? The
> stars it uses are always bright and easy enough to find with a chart
> anyway. Once I've done all that though it still doesn't goto very
> accurately, and no-one seems to have been able to work out quite why.
> Tracks perfectly though, once I have found what I am looking for....

On my LX200GPS, you need to be careful it doesn't reset its location and
timezone to default (which it seems to sometimes) and also make sure that
the daylight savings option is set correctly. As long as this is taken care
of (assuming fairly well levelled and pointing North in the first place) it
always gets the alignment starts in the finder and then GOTO is really
rather good. It always seems to use the only really bright star in that area
of the sky as well, so there's not much difficulty centering the right one.

I use the High Preicision Pointing option as well, which slews to a nearby
star to the object you are looking for first, allows you to centre that
exactly, then slews to the object.


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