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South after ensuring that it was midway between the hard stops. Upon being told to do

an automatic alignment, it did the usual “Meade Mambo”, checking level at three

orientations, then seeking North and level. At this point it wanted a GPS lock. As with

all the other GPS-equipped telescopes that have been in my dining room, I couldn’t

acquire an indoors GPS lock. I entered time and location manually and off it went to the

first alignment star. I told it that it was centered and it slewed to another. I told it that

one was centered also, and received an “alignment successful” message. A few GoTo

requests resulted in pointing attitudes that were reasonable, so I pronounced it

functional. I strongly recommend this sort of thing with a new instrument, as if there’s a

problem either with the telescope or the operator it’s easier to sort it out in a well-lit

room.

I’m not going to draw or report any conclusions at this point; I haven’t even looked

through the telescope yet! What I can say is that so far everything seems to be as it

should be. If it works as well in the observatory as it seems to in the dining room it’ll be

a very nice instrument.

TAKING IT OUTSIDE

The next step was to haul it up into the observatory

and plant it on the wedge there. I made sure I had help

with that phase of the project. It’s definitely a two-man

job - but I believe that it’s easier than either the 12” or

14” LX200GPS. As you can see in the photo, the soft

dewshield from my current 12” LX200 Classic fit the

12” RCX just fine. The dustcap is also the same size,

as is the prefilter for my Ha filter setup.

Clearly, most of what we really care about will be learned in the next phase of this trial.

I’ll be able to see how well it operates compared to the various Meade & Celestron

forkmounts and GEMs I’ve used in this observatory. I’ll evaluate goto and tracking

accuracy. I will be able to measure and evaluate periodic error and periodic error

correction. I will be able to take some images with the Canon 300D DSLR and the LPI,

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