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Originally Posted by rogerg
The "Park" position is simply the position it assumes it's at when the telescope starts up, for the case of the classic LX. So the "park" used is to put it at 0 alt and 0 az (0 dec, current RA).
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I've just done some googling it appears that the firmware on the Autostar II does have a problem after the scope is parked via the handset if the scope is in equatorial (polar) mode. You select "Park" through the utility menu and it moves, as you say, to RA/Dec 0,0 or home position - and when the scope starts up again apparently after the GPS re-aquires and gets a fix on time and date, the pointing accuracy is way off. It should, buy all rights, be bang-on. There is a fix coming I believe.
So - it's a LX200GPS prob, not classic.
At the end of all that - if you have a Classic, how is the scope meant to know, automagically, what time and date it is without a GPS - or do you have one retro-fitted? A one-star alignment on a known star is what the scope relies upon to get its bearings back - so I'm not sure that what you want is actually achievable without a GPS....
