PaulHD

Hi all, Having acquired a second hand Meade 14" LX200GPS system I am now in the process of mounting it to the Meade tripod that came with the telescope. There is some confusion in which direction the control panel is to face. The instruction booklet I find vague and open to interpretation also some posts, not on this site, say facing South while others say North !! Can anyone help put this to bed for me? Maybe I should add that I live in the North of the UK.. Thanks in advance, Paul

It was the Autoguider port that's thrown me. During a dry spell this morning I hooked up the camera directly to the pc, forgetting about the ST-4 cable, which I've previously been trying to use. Then hooking up pc to RS232 port seems to have cleared the connection error messages I've been receiving. Downloading the "Meade Generic Driver" may have also helped. All I need now is a clear night to play with the guiding for real. Looking at the weather forecast this could be some time off :-((. Cheers, Paul

Hi Malcolm and Michael, Many thanks for your suggestions. Certainly food for thought. I've hooked up the Meade #507 cable to the Auto guider port on the computer control panel but never thought of hooking up the laptop to one of the RS232 ports. This I'll try once it stops raining !!!!! I appreciate you getting back to me. Paul

Hi, I've acquired a 14" Meade LX200GPS Autostar ll system (yes, its a monster!!) and am looking for some advice on how to connect it to my laptop when using PHD. It looks simple enough but for whatever reason when I try connecting the mount in PHD to 'Meade LX200GPS/R (ASCOM), I receive an error message stating that it cannot create object type of prog ID: Meade LX200 telescope. Does this mean that my mount is not supported by ASCOM ? I'm sure I have all the ASCOM drivers downloaded ok. I can connect via 'On Camera' though I'm led to believe that this is not as robust as via ASCOM above. Am I missing something so obvious that I cant see the wood for the tree's ?? Any assistance most welcomed.