LX200GPS menu finding Problems Help!

[BlackWidow (Mardy)]

I have owned an LX200GPS for a while now and have just added a sun filter. I want to track the sun and found that I can add and Asteroid file into the handset to use as a trackable object for the Sun... That part is all done. However how the heck do you find things fast on and Autostar 2 handset without scrolling through 800 objects in the Asteroid listing on the handset. Or do I have to clear all the objects and just add the sun, then put them all back again when I need them? That takes a while also.. I wish thier was a search function in the handset... Or have I got it all wrong?



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Mardy

[turbo_pascale (Rob)]

Most people choose to replace pluto with the sun (which needs the handbox patched), which makes it much easier to find (only needs to scroll through a few objects under "planets").

Looks at this page for Dick Seymour's Patches, one of which can replace Pluto with the sun.
http://rseymour.home.wolfenet.com/patches/.
Go right down to the bottom for the latest patch. You can turn on/off most options of the patches as you like.

Lot of extra info here:
Check out Mike Weasner's ETX site, specifically the pages on Autostar
http://www.weasner.com/etx/autostar_info.html

[BlackWidow (Mardy)]

Thanks Rob for that. Seems like a better idea. I will let you know how I go..


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Mardy

[AndrewJ]

Gday Martin

If you added the sun as asteroid via the hbx
when you enter the asteroids screen, just scroll UP
and it wraps to the bottom element ( ie the new one )
Another "trick" to reset or position the indexes into long lists is to use the NGC screen.
If you know the record number you want ( ie zero in this case ready for a scroll up ), just go NGC ( hotkey 9 ) and enter 1 and enter then mode out.
That has reset set the generic record counter to 1
Now go to the asterids screen and it will be on record 1
Just scroll UP and yr on the last record.
Easy peasy and no patch reqd.

Andrew