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I was also informed last week that the LXD75 still uses the older LXD55 motors. Dunno if thats a good thing or not.
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Less desirable using old technology.
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Another thing to consider is that I will be controlling the scope from about 8 metres away in my little control room, so laptop control is a necessity.
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Eight metres, a CCD imager with a USB2 cable isn't going beyond 5 metres without repeaters and a powered USB2 hub.
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Also, with the CG5, is there any extra accessories (cables, programmes etc) needed to autoguide it?
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You need a six wire cable for the autoguiding hardware an a imager that complies with the S-BIG auto-guiding standards.
You can use the Meade AutoStar, and/or run guidedog and run a virtual parallel port and an LX200 emulator through ShoeString astronomy's adapters.
Convoluted but Celestron don't seem to care much about the software side of running mounts nor documenting them well.