From: "Raoul Schlesser" <gr842@yahoo.com>

Date: November 10, 2005 9:32:25 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Camera for guiding

Tim:

instead of running a PC emulator running an LX200 emulator, have you thought of a 

hardware solution? There are LX200 hardware emulators out there that can talk to just 

about any mount's autoguider port, for example a thing like this:

http://www.technoplus.nl/astro/lx200.htm

I don't know any details about this gadget, but at first sight it could/should do the trick. 

Or then, probably a much better solution would be the IsoOptical board concept that 

Milton has been working with.

BTW, as Milton mentioned earlier, we recently got the autoguiding feature to cooperate 

well with my SkySensor 2000 PC, which I'm using to control a GPDX mount. It was 

definitely worth the effort as far as I'm concerned. At its current development stage, it's a 

snap to get autoguiding going, and even under horrendous conditions the software never 

lost the guide star during our tests.

raoul

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Tim" <tjp314@p...> wrote:

David:  I'm one of these Mac folks who'd like to try autoguiding with Astro IIDC, but my 

guidable mounts are Celestron or Temma.  I don't do Meade, but mainly because I'd 

rather 

not buy another fork mount (my 9.25" is on a fork, and I don't like moving it around 

much).  

Someone on the Meade DSI group pointed me to Rob Beck's Star-Mate (http://

www.star-

mate.com/starmate.htm) for emulating an LX200 to drive things like Celestron mounts, 

but I 

imagine running an LX200 emulator on a Mac would be rather Rube Goldberg, as it's 

made 

for PCs.  But I could be wrong.

planetarily,

-Tim.