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Re: Celestron Hand Controllers

Started by jonisaacs, 02/02/2009 04:59PM
Posted 02/02/2009 04:59PM Opening Post
Mike Morea said:

Is there a simple or not so simple way to tell one Celestron Nexstar Hand Controller from another? Has someone somewhere taken the time to figure out and record which ones work with which scopes? Thanks. Mike.

Michael Swanson's site is a good place to start..

http://www.nexstarsite.com/

And then of course Rod Mollise...

jon
Posted 02/03/2009 01:24PM #1
Mike Morea said:

Jon: Thanks for the reply. Checked the site you recommended, and although it's chock full of info, it did not seem to have a direct answer to my Q. Here's what I'm saying. I have four Celestron Nexstar Controllers. One from a Nexwstar 4GT - probably the original version with some known and relatively minor software glitches, one from an older Celestron Nexstar 8, One sold to me as coming from a new CGE, and one sold to me as a ver. 3.13.13.10 - a fairly recent upgrade. Now lets pretend I put them all in a box and the labels fall off. How in the world do I figure out which is which? Thanks again. Mike.

Answer? You can't. The "little scope" HCs, the original NS5/8 HCs, and the latest programmable HCs look pretty much indistinguisable. You have to be able to fire one up and check the firmware builds.


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