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Hi Frank:
Great site! You've obviously put a lot of
work into it; are you a computer professional? It looks it! Your equipment shots
are excellent for anyone using or planning on using Meade equipment. Have you
mentioned the site over on MAPUG?
Your astrophotos could use a larger image
scale for viewing. A little hard to tell, but some of them seem to show some of
the same tracking problems that I ran into with my Meade LX200, 8 inch.
Never did get it to track reliably. Sometimes it would do 15 to 25 minutes
pretty well, other times even 5 minutes trailed (and this was with careful
manual guiding). I figured it was a mixture of mirror flop and drive
irregularities. Finally switched to a refractor on a G-11 mount and immediately
started getting round stars. I still use the LX for star parties; the pointing
is great!
Thanks for sharing....
Bert
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