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Roger are you saying that the scope
1) has a built-in clock which is reasonably accurate, and that the "parked at" time is stored within the logic at the precise moment it finishes slewing to home position...
2) that you want the scope, once parked and turned off to keep on tracking time with that clock...
and
3) want the scope to power up, know the time and that it's at 0,0 home position, and then slew to an object without doing any further alignment at the start of the new session?
I gather that it has SmartDrive - so how do you get past the SmartDrive calibration test on startup? Wouldn't that affect the post-startup position, which is why the scope usually wants to do a 1-star align?
I'm sorry if I sound daft, but having a GPS version I'm not sure how the older models were meant to do this. I assume that Meade developed the GPS version so that people could do what you are trying to do, and refer to real time rather than clock time.
Last edited by Omaroo; 11-02-2008 at 12:04 PM.
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