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Originally Posted by Omaroo
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....  |
The scope knows what time & date it is between startups, and it assumes when started up that it's at 0,0.... I don't see why it'd need to have the date & time updated from a GPS or anything else?
I don't consider that it loses it's bearings as such, it just assumes it's at point 0,0 upon startup so if it's pointing at 0,0 accurately upon startup, it knows it's pointing in the right place..
It seems from discussion on the LX200 group that the concensus is my PC time and LX200 time don't match closely enough, or aren't accurate enough, or there is too much delay between me parking the scope at 0,0 and turning it off. I'm going to do some testing on those theories.