Re: [APML] Field de-rotator

["Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@multiboard.com>]

>I just received a new LX200 GPS and I am trying to make a decision as to a 
>super wedge or a field de-rotator.  What I have read so far is that the 
>field de-rotator shuts down the smart drive on LX200's, and it also limits 
>vertical movement.  I do not know if this is also true with the GPS model 
>or not as the article did not specify.

         Buy the wedge.  The feild de-rotoator takes up a lot of physical 
room, such that, if you try to combine say an off axis guider, and/or a CCD 
autoguider with the de-rotator, not only do you have a pile of weight 
hangin off on one end, but you might physically not have the room to intall 
all devices at once.
joe



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