Jodyp3702 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 I have an Orion skyquest xt6 Intelliscope I'm trying to figure out how to read longitude and latitude with it any help I can get I would be greatful for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Geoff Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 I am not familiar with this model, but I think that you don't read longitude and latitude with it. You have to find the longitude and latitude of your observing site (which you can do by various means) and then enter these into the Intelliscope controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brantuk Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 The scope is a dobsonian and works on altitude and azimuth coordinates. Only equatorial mounts work on longitude and latitude coordinates. If you wanted to find the equivalent long/lat for an alt/az point, then you would have to google a conversion table or use something like stellarium which can show you both sets of coords for any point in the night sky. Far as I know though the intelliscope handset uses alt/az. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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