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Old 15-05-2014, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Ryz View Post
Oh wowza. Thanks David & Richard.

Still in the embryonic stages of amateur astronomy knowledge so a lot of devices and terms are new to me. Looking into this, does this device work with Dobs like a skywatcher that don't have motorized mounts?

Trying to skim through the userguide from Wildcard Innovations (hoping these are the right people?) and lot of it going over my head.

Assume you mount this to the scope, sync it with your computer, and you can manually track DSOs with the co-ordinates?
Ryz
I assume you are talking about an Argo Navis system? This is what is called a "push to" system. The handset gives you directions and numbers and you move the scope manually until both axis readout are zero and all being well the selected target is in the eyepiece.

No computer is needed unless you are updating the firmware or adding new objects to the built in catalogues.

Malcolm
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