My 900GTO 10" Newtonian is on a permanent AP 8" portable pier on three 14?" square stepping stones in vegetable garden with a 365 Telegizmos cover. I attribute my changing polar alignment to moisture

Hello Brent Fantastic! Many members want to track the ISS via ascom. I still prefer the older legacy LX200 direct connect (no ascom). Your new Skytrack software (presently leap-frogging via ascom) ava

Curtis Do you have any pictures/movies of those L.A. airplanes transiting the Moon or Sun? I'm working on getting a light weight mount, tripod and scope setup so I can easily relocate for an ISS Moon

I'm guilty as charged. Before groups.io If a saw an big error or link was not clickable. I would to delete and resend a corrected message. I normally compose message in notepad++, copy, paste and send

Thank you for the mask link. Funny and makes a point. I sent it to 19 family and friends. Took a screen shot of hit count and 30 minutes later it had increased 9,000 hits. It's going viral on the viru

Center star on reticle At Main Menu Press RA/DEC/Rev button at bottom right Press 9-Re-Calibrate You should hear a beep telling you that you have Re-calibrated on the last Goto star Setup a Goto merid

3 degrees difference from East to West side. That may be a 1.5 degree error in polar alignment. I think you can relate this to Roland's Polar alignment procedure for altitude adjustment. Center a star

1314 keystrokes follow In some cases the length is more important than the weight. Example: Need a broomstick or something light, strong and a few feet long Put a 10 or 20 pound counter weight on a ho

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1811 keystrokes follow I have not tried SkyTrack. SkyTrack has a 30 day free trial then $9 one time. https://www.heavenscape.com/index.html SkyTrack says it has variable speed tracking available with

SatelliteTracker was sold back to the original developer/owner and renamed to SkyTrack. SkyTrack is now under development with an ascom connect. $9.00 license I ordered SkyTrack today and have not rec

Found this site watching NASA TV https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/intro.html Click NEO's Filter by time, distance from Earth, brightness or search for a Designation/name (case sensitive) Click an object

I did not know about the <URL> brackets. <http://www.jimmyjujames.com/> I found if I add a new return at end of URL it turns URL blue and makes it linkable. http://www.jimmyjujames.com/ Jimmy The sky

$$$#:V# should work The first $$$# clears an invalid command with no results returned Then :V# will return version The number 1 is infinitely larger than the number 0 Jimmy

Long shot Some of my Linux scripts are set to display end of line (eol) as a $ sign. I don't think LX-200 protocol uses an (EOL) character # sign is the EOL in LX-200 protocol $ sign may be an invalid

Polar aligning involves aligning Altitude and Azimuth This procedure is for the Altitude part only. Try to find 2 stars close to meridian and on the same side of meridian, one close to zenith one furt

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I do the same thing but in a different order and seldom need a second iteration. First I move star half way back to crosshair with the N-S buttons and if on laptop I use a mm ruler to find half way. I

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110 Volt wire connections on power supply Make sure you connect the protective ground (green wire) to chassis If the screws will unscrew out completely I would use Ring wire connectors on end of wires

If OE is short for orthogonality error. An Orthogonality error (OE) is only east-west when pointing at zenith or along meridian. OE is always in line with the counter-weight shaft. When pointing at NC

Thanks to Roland, every time I see M31, I zoom in to see the Bear Paw. And there it is in your photo. A little fuzzy but easily visible. Andromeda M31 Bear Paw Where is that 3 toed bear paw in Androme

I tried Horizons a few years back when Ray explained how to set it up. For tracking the ISS it did not impress me. Only updating mount every 60 seconds at quickest setting Fine adjustments were not im