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My New Ideas on Meade, Eyepieces, and SCT
Hello IIS people:
I had some ideas, wondering about the hard stops on Meade SCT telescopes; I guess other type of scopes have them too.
But if the wires were broken, but allowed to convey their current by brushes and slip rings (like in electric motors) the telescope could be allowed to rotate in the same direction, pause to observe, and continue seemingly indefinitely. However, I guess this would have something to do with error in the star position program like in Meade's AutoStar II database.
But on another thing, wouldn't it be great to have the telescope companies to incorporate dew heater into their models of telescopes? The wires could be threaded and imbedded into the scopes axes. I would just want to make sure that the extra current wouldn't induce some current or error like into an encoder wire.
Also I was wondering about a neat idea of having eyepieces that have a computer chip in them that has info on focal length, and apparent field angle. And the eyepiece would plug into connectors in the focuser so that a computer in the scope would calculate other info parameters and display them.
Theoretically you could even have a see through LCD display inside the eyepiece and you could take a measurement of some astronomical object you see in it.
You could have this as a type of reticle too.
David
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