Re: [APML]: Beginner Needing Advise

[Gary Holland <gary@oo.com>]

At 05:30 PM 9/25/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>At 03:24 PM 9/23/96 PDT, James T Waters wrote:
>>     I own a Meade LX200HP 10" f/10 scope. I use the Lumicon Giant Easy 
>>     Guider to reduce the scope to f/6.  I want to get into astro 
>>     photography and need some advise.  I need an auto guider.  As I see it 
>>     my options are the Meade Pictor 201XT auto guider, Meade 208XT auto 
>>     guider / imager or SBIG ST4 auto guider.  I have herd that the ST4 has 
>>     problems tracking on the LX200 due to DEC retrograde movement and that 
>>     Meade has designed the Pictor to take this into account.  
>
>The ST4 has hysteresis adjustments to compensate for backlash. But as I
>recall, you can also try to program it out with the LX200 itself.
>

Dave, how easy is it to setup the st4 for guiding?

-gary
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