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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Just for info, the ASII still has a lot of bugs in it, and a lot probably wont affect users of this scope, however PEC will 
Also, looking at the piccies in the flyer and zooming then tweaking the images, it looks like the LX800 has a std LX200 control panel fitted
and the Starlock unit is plugged into what is currently the rs232port. |
Andrew ... I agree about ASII not being perfect - but it's proabably a better starting point than a lot of previous Meade new release products...
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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Secondly, the Starlock body would appear to show 2 cameras,
an rs232 port and an ST4 port.
If we assume the small camera operates like the LS scopes and the big scope has a camera, factory tuned for infinite focus, then all the guiding "smarts" are probably inside the Starlock unit, and it just sends std serial guide commands to the main control panel.
If it just uses std pulseguide commands, then the Starlock unit could theoretically be used as a standalone guider for ANY Meade scope.  |
I did spot both of those cameras and assumed the small cam was a LS type auto align feature ... and also spotted the 'lx200' control panel in place of the AP one ... at least it probably responds to standard meade command sets for the LX-200 series .. in the most part anyway..
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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Thats just a guess so far tho, but an enticing prospect,
Time will tell.
Andrew
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Indeed - enticing enough to be an early adopter ... not quite sure!