so do you steer your scope by the software, or just use the software for
reference?




"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:18:37 +0100, "Stuart Turrell"
wrote:

I take it by reading a thread "LX90 First Light (longish)", most people
here
have a laptop to go out with to do star gazing.

I have one too, its a 700Mhz one, capable of running my starry night
software slowly, but one concern i have about using that with (hopefully
my
LX90), is the light, is there sotware out there to run programs a shade
of
red.

Is that the newest version of Starry Night? My older version runs
perfectly well on an old 266Mhz machine! Starry night (or the older
versions) had that wonderful gamma ramping facility IIRC Settings --
Night Vision. This was particularly good (if your graphics card
supports it) because it changes *all* colours to a shade of red - not
just the Windows colour scheme which leaves with a burningly bright
cursor along with a few minor window building blocks.

Also, what are the specs of your laptops?

My astro one is an old Compaq Armada running at 600MHz with a 12Gb
hard disk.

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