NS8-GPS Filter Limits

[dazza1639]

Scanning through the manual & the handset menus I noticed that you can get the handset to ignore objects below your site horizon by setting minimum altitude angle limit. My regular observing site {back garden} has a 12 deg obstruction to the South, East & West but a 35 deg obstruction to the North {the house}. Is there any way of filtering the objects so that it ignores items that are in the North or is it just altitude limits?

Darren

[James]

Its just altitude limits I'm afraid. Unless you were running the scope via software on a laptop... Astroplanner for instance allows you to put in a profile of the horizon for an observing site thereby ignoring those objects that aren't visible.

James

[dazza1639]

Cheers James I'll just have to stick with Alt limits, I was just trying to get around having the tour bring up loags of objects I can't see, It tends to come up with the objects in the North first.

Darren

[Helen]

I know the problem Darren - also got trees and houses to contend with. Anyone know if you can get the scope to show you anything of interest near where the scope is pointing?

Helen