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Originally Posted by shane shaw
G'day all, I am looking at buying a notebook to connect to my Meade lx200 classic 12 inch.
Could you please let me know the do's and don't's of what not to buy and what I need in being able to connect it to the scope. I would like to be able to view what i am observing from notebook and also control it from the notebook and capture all my pictures onto it also. At first it will mainly be just to connect to it and use it as a goto with a program of starry nights
thanks in advance.
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Harvey Norman, Officeworks have some good prices on laptops (new) that can be used for telescope control. The USB/Serial converter that I use has never caused a problem. Camera control / autoguiding can also be done with USB ports instead of dedicated serial ones. The problem with a new computer will be Vista - make sure all the drivers you need to use for telescope control, guiding, camera are up to date and Vista compatible.
I have had problems with StarryNight and Vista, but Rob (CoombellKid) has suggestions for overcoming these.