Unless you are going to look at other objects, like Venus, is there any reason to have goto on a solar mount? A PST for instance can only be used to view the Sun.
Good to know. Kind of makes you wonder about GoTo mounts that can't be
initialized using the sun, yet offer the solar tracking rate.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
Chuck, one thing to look out for is the computer alignment. The newer Celestron's include the "Sun" as a valid solar system alignment target for daytime use. I can't speak for the newer Meade stuff, but on the three year old ETX that I picked up, the "Sun" is not a valid daytime solar system alignment target. I also consider the GT114 mount about as low as you can go in the Celestron catalogue. Hope that helps. - Kurt
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