lx200 14"

[AndrewJ]

Gday Mozzie

Good to see yr having fun with the new beast
however

.the scope tracked perfectly

all night and ive ordered an illuminated eyepiece to do a smart mount,

this will give me better accuracy in tracking

Not sure if you mean what you said

Meade have
"Smart Drive" ( which is really PEC ) and this will assist with tracking.
However, It doesnt work in AltAz ( due to several bugs )
and in Polar, you need to flip the data in the Sth Hemi,
or it plays back mirror imaged.
"Smart Mount" is a TPoint like process that will only assist ( in theory ) the accuracy of gotos. It has no effect on tracking.
It is also broken, so i wouldnt waste time on it.

Andrew

[mozzie (Peter)]

hi andrew
sorry yes smart drive don was saying to do this to get the accuracy and tracking perfect!!!!
well any suggestions for alt/az mount ive trained drives etc but near zenith im not gotoing perfectly its on the edge of eyepiece.

every time going to jupiter is also on the edge of eyepiece!!!

[Barrykgerdes]

Smart Drive is and I assume Tpoint are programs designed to place inverse errors (corrections) into the software programs to take care of positioning errors due to manufacturing deficiencies, mainly to orthogonality errors. Correcting these at the source is the best procedure.

PEC is also a manufacturing error but this can't be improved by fixing the source unless you can manufacture error free gears. The way to correct this is usually handled with compensation for repeating worm errors but can also be used to compensate for worm wheel errors. AndrewJ is the expert in this area.

Barry

[mozzie (Peter)]

yes barry,andrew helped me out when parking the lx90 with lnt.

i think he should be working for meade there wouldnt be any bugs in the software!!!!!!

[AndrewJ]

Gday Mozzie

sorry yes smart drive don was saying

I'll have to call Don "Smart drive" when i next chat
However, you will not get it perfect.
For AltAz mountings, ignore Smart Mount and Smart Drive,
you will be wasting your time.
Also, planetary gotos ( incl moon ) can be a ways off as the Meade firmware only uses a simplistic algorithm to calculate the positions.
To properly test goto accuracy, you should only use stars.

When you do get round to going polar and doing PEC, i strongly suggest you use a cheap webcam and guider software, vs spend 24mins looking into an illuminated reticle
( been there, tried that )

Andrew

[mozzie (Peter)]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Gday Mozzie


I'll have to call Don "Smart drive" when i next chat
However, you will not get it perfect.
For AltAz mountings, ignore Smart Mount and Smart Drive,
you will be wasting your time.
Also, planetary gotos ( incl moon ) can be a ways off as the Meade firmware only uses a simplistic algorithm to calculate the positions.
To properly test goto accuracy, you should only use stars.

When you do get round to going polar and doing PEC, i strongly suggest you use a cheap webcam and guider software, vs spend 24mins looking into an illuminated reticle
( been there, tried that )

Andrew

thanks andrew theres no real problem with goto's maybe i was trying to get it to perfect!!!!!!! im so wrapped with the scope.don done the latest patches for me to so thanks for all the work meade dont seem to do!!!!

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

That looks awesome Mozzie.
Well done mate.

[Rev (Greg)]

Hi Mozzie, I was wondering whether your new 14" is the reason of all the cloudy weather along the coast?

Regards Rev

[Ric]

Congrats on the new scope Pete.

It's an awesome looking beast.

[mozzie (Peter)]

well i don't no if its my scope!!!!!! but hasn't it been terrible..on the good side it will clear one day..???

[h0ughy (David)]

yes one day it will clear

[Hagar (Doug)]

Hi Pete, Glad to hear you've got your new beast. Helen and I will be coming back up to the lovely place you live next year in the last week of July through to the last week in August. If you are home we will drop round to have a look through this monster.
Cheers Mate, have fun and don't burn your eyes out on the moon or Omega Centauri.

[Kal (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

yes one day it will clear

one day this year though??!

hey mozzie great pics the scope looks right at home there in your pod, but really, this weather your brought is shocking

[mozzie (Peter)]

Originally Posted by Hagar

Hi Pete, Glad to hear you've got your new beast. Helen and I will be coming back up to the lovely place you live next year in the last week of July through to the last week in August. If you are home we will drop round to have a look through this monster.
Cheers Mate, have fun and don't burn your eyes out on the moon or Omega Centauri.

hi doug
sounds good well have a couple of bbq's and quiet ale's.the weather may have cleared by then!!!!!!!

[mozzie (Peter)]

Originally Posted by Kal

one day this year though??!

hey mozzie great pics the scope looks right at home there in your pod, but really, this weather your brought is shocking

thanks andrew
i don't know if it was my scope that brought the weather
im a bricky and i'll tell you what its nearly time to find a new trade!!!!!
well all be whinging in 2 years no rain,all dry,plants dieing etc etc hahaha!!!