I have a couple of "Classic" LX-200s. I use a Star-GPS on both to allow quick set-up if I move them around, but does anyone know of a way to upgrade the database to INCLUDE the sun and moon for daytime planet finding? Meade tells me that it can't be done. I had an idea for aliging in the daytime, but haven't tried this yet: Set up the mount in the alt-az mode. when it slews to each alignment star, just select "enter" to both (even though you can't see them) just to get the motors running and the mount "initialized." Then, calculate the RA and Dec for the sun at that exact moment, and command the scope to slew to these coordinates. Manually center the sun, and then hold the "enter" button down to "sync" on that position. The mount should now have "refined" pointing accuracy. Has anybody done anything like this and/or have a better suggestion of how to easily aling one of these old classics in the daytime? Thanks, Bob Piekiel
Upgrading database in Classic LX-200 for daytime a
Started by piekielrl, 10/26/2006 03:44PM
Posted 10/26/2006 03:44PM
Opening Post
Posted 10/27/2006 02:20AM
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which controller do you have? I know with my old LX-90 and the autostar #497 there was a procedure to be able to track the sun. you had to add a comet to the autostar user objects (or something like that) that had the coordinates of being directly behind the sun. you could do a 2 star alignment during the day, then tell it to goto your "comet" and it would get over to the sun (well pretty close) then you just recenter and sync and it would track it very well
I think I found this over on the mpaug user group or at weasners Mighty ETX site
http://www.weasner.com/
James
I think I found this over on the mpaug user group or at weasners Mighty ETX site
http://www.weasner.com/
James
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