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

["Richard Klappal" <klappal@xnet.com>]

Paul:
	I just rcvd a replacement hand controller from Losmandy for the GM8 mount.
My old one has one flaky direction button that's screwing up trying to
track.  I could send you my flaky one for a test. If it works for you, The
Losmandy controller is $60.

I'm assuming this is a 'grunt' level controller with no brains--four
directional buttons and two reversing switches--nothing else.

Rich Klappal


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org]On
> Behalf Of cherrio
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 09:12
> To: astro-photo@seds.org
> Subject: Re: [APML] request for information on a Celestron Hand
> Controller
>
>
> Paul,
> You might have better luck on VideoAstro group
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sct-user/ they are exclusive Celestron
> Ray Rochelle
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul M. Rybski" <rybskip@idcnet.com>
> To: <celestronuser@lists.best.com>; <astro-l@listserv.uww.edu>;
> <astro-photo@seds.org>
> 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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