Newbie: SkyQuest IntelliScope question

Can someone please confirm that the SkyQuest IntelliScope with a
Computized Object Locator is not capable of guiding the scope to an
object but rather gives poistioning feedback to the user?

Thanks.

Mark

Can someone please confirm that the SkyQuest IntelliScope with a
Computized Object Locator is not capable of guiding the scope to an
object but rather gives poistioning feedback to the user?

Hi:

That is correct--the scope does not move by itself. This is not a goto system,
it's a digital setting circle system. You select the object of your choice and
the Intelliscope tells you how you need to move the scope to put the object in
the field. Call it a "push-to" system. ;-)

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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Can someone please confirm that the SkyQuest IntelliScope with a
Computized Object Locator is not capable of guiding the scope to an
object but rather gives poistioning feedback to the user?

Hi:

That is correct--the scope does not move by itself. This is not a goto system,
it's a digital setting circle system. You select the object of your choice and
the Intelliscope tells you how you need to move the scope to put the object in
the field. Call it a "push-to" system. ;-)

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
Like SCTs and MCTs?
Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html

SpikyJoe wrote:
Can someone please confirm that the SkyQuest IntelliScope with a
Computized Object Locator is not capable of guiding the scope to an
object but rather gives poistioning feedback to the user?


Correct. It's a push to, not a go to. And, of course, it does not
track. Still, should be useful in finding DSOs and such.

Phil

SpikyJoe wrote:
Can someone please confirm that the SkyQuest IntelliScope with a
Computized Object Locator is not capable of guiding the scope to an
object but rather gives poistioning feedback to the user?


Correct. It's a push to, not a go to. And, of course, it does not
track. Still, should be useful in finding DSOs and such.

Phil

Astromart has a review on this...
Sounds like it's good for the money.
Clearskies,
Orion

"SpikyJoe" wrote in message
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Can someone please confirm that the SkyQuest IntelliScope with a
Computized Object Locator is not capable of guiding the scope to an
object but rather gives poistioning feedback to the user?

Thanks.

Mark


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Astromart has a review on this...
Sounds like it's good for the money.
Clearskies,
Orion

"SpikyJoe" wrote in message
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Can someone please confirm that the SkyQuest IntelliScope with a
Computized Object Locator is not capable of guiding the scope to an
object but rather gives poistioning feedback to the user?

Thanks.

Mark


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