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dangerman
22-March-2009, 07:57 PM
I have been given a meade telescope with autostar.... I would like to have stellarium drive the telescope to points i would like to view.

a few questions for the esteemed experts:

Is this possible?

What do I need?

Will it be able to find stars more accurately since i can program my lat/long into stellarium?

Thanks for any help received

NickW
22-March-2009, 08:20 PM
Firstly, welcome to BAUT!

Seconding, I ran a quick search on google and found this on the Stellarium website.

http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Telescope_Control

It tells you what you need, to do it. Sorry I couldn't be more help. I only use stellarium to help me approximate where things I am looking for are at.

dangerman
22-March-2009, 10:50 PM
Thanks for the info and link.... that should be enough to get me started!

:)