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Hi Earl,
I have an LX90-10" ACF purchased about a year ago. It did not come with LNT either. The word from Bintel was that it did not help much in alignment.
My personal opinion is that LNT is a Good Thing. It was on my previous LX90-8" and that scope was a great bit of kit. I used it heaps and it never missed a beat. Initial slews were within a finder of the target star.
However, the new LX90 did come with a poxy compass / bubble level which can live in the eyepiece holder of the diagonal. That device is supposed to be as good as LNT. I use it, but don't expect my initial slews to be Anywhere Near the target stars, unlike the real LNT module.
Moral of the story - Meade giveth, Meade taketh away.
Enjoy the new scope - the Autostar / Audiostar is a very good bit of gear, despite no LNT. I have found that tracking (unguided following of a target) is very much better on the new LX90 than on the older one. I can now do 20 second exposures at f/5 with a good chance of round stars rather than egg shaped stars. The old LX90 was limited to about 2.5 seconds exposure when tracking at the same f ratio.
Regards,
Tony Barry
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