Re: [APML] request for information on a Celestron Hand Controller

["cherrio" <cherrio@shocking.com>]

Paul,
You might have better luck on VideoAstro group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sct-user/ they are exclusive Celestron
Ray Rochelle

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From: "Paul M. Rybski" <rybskip@idcnet.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 12:51 AM
Subject: [APML] request for information on a Celestron Hand Controller


> Dear colleagues,
>
>      Apologies for cross-posting this request . . . .
>
>      I am looking for the hand controller to use with an earlier Celestron
> C-8 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, no longer manufactured by Celestron.  A
> colleague who has since passed away purchased this telescope in 1997 or
> 1998.  It has no visible model number or name anywhere on the OTA or the
> mount.  The telescope has the conventional C-8 horseshoe mount, an RA
motor
> driven by a 9-volt battery, Ultrabrite coatings and an enigmatic
> telephone-cord-like input for a Hand Controller.  Since the telescope has
> no built-in Declination slow-motion motor (that I can see), I assume such
a
> motor would have to be added to the Dec slow-motion knob found at the base
> of the horseshoe mount.  How the Dec motor would be controlled by the Hand
> Controller is not obvious.
>
>      I have looked through the webpages of all of the dealers in Celestron
> accessories I could find, but a Hand Controller was nowhere in sight.  I
> believe the modern version of this controller is Celestron's #60212, but I
> do not know if this controller would work with my telescope.  Celestron
> lists #60212 as a currently available part.
>
>      Hopefully, some one of you will be able to help me with this problem.
> Any information concerning this Hand Controller and adding slow-motion
> controls to this telescope's mount for astrophotography would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Yours, sincerely,
>
> Paul Rybski, Physics, UW-Whitewater
>
>
>
>
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