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Old 20-01-2008, 05:17 PM
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ballaratdragons (Ken)
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Matty,

if you have a portable TV that you can place next to your imaging lappy or PC you could try what I do.

If I want to look at the Moon or Planets (my v2.5a hand controller doesn't do planets, I have to go look for them), I have an El-Cheapo wireless security camera fitted into my 8x50 fiderscope. I look at the TV and use the slew arrows on the hand controller to centre the object. I have marked crosshairs on my TV and when the object is in centre of the crosshairs it is also centre of the imaging screen on the lappy.

I also use the TV and security camera for initial 3 star alignment on start-up. It makes the job a lot faster

The security camera in the finderscope can be seen here:
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