Vixen Skysensor 2000

[mick pinner]

if anyone is using this as a go-to system could they give me their impressions please.

[g__day]

Impressive - dig up my review of the Vixen Atlux - because half of its on the SkySensor2000-PC v2.10.

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/44-437-0-0-1-0.html

It's capabilities are pretty excellent though its documentation at 110 pages is light. Outline what you wish to know and I'll do my best to give detailed answers.

In essence its a very, very powerful unit - supplying excellent goto and tracking on my rig. Using MaxPoint takes my raw pointing from 3 arc minutes to better than 1 arc minute on wake from last use. If I add a two star align this improves my tracking to the point I have done 10 minute shots unguided at 1500mm focal lenght and capture beautifully round stars.

It can compensate for atomspheric refraction, gross polar mis-alignmnet (on point and tracking) and non sidereal rates - moon, satellites. It can store 10 set up locations and its resume from last power off function is very good. Its has PEC (basic upload only - not write corrections direct to memory). I vastly prefer the PC version to the non PC versio - and the latest ASCOM 5 drivers now do reveal pulse guides under the Sky6. Its desirable if you can get it with Version 2.06 or higher firmware - folks in the USA still sell this for around $40 and their is an active Yahoo Groups user support group.

Matt

[atalas]

Hi Mick

The Vixen Skysensor 2000 is a very accurate goto system ! also gives the ability to get very accurate polar alignment using It's routine....you'll enjoy using It.