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Originally posted by luxordelphi
reply to post by ngchunter
News from China is on my list of the most unreliable sources available. But maybe that's just me.
Originally posted by luxordelphi
reply to post by ngchunter
Philosophically speaking, I agree.
Originally posted by luxordelphi
reply to post by ngchunter
Where are your co-ordinates coming from? Are you manually punching them in or is it a satellite feed and, if so, which?
Originally posted by ngchunter
Originally posted by luxordelphi
reply to post by ngchunter
Where are your co-ordinates coming from? Are you manually punching them in or is it a satellite feed and, if so, which?
The coordinates for the sun are manually punched in. The telescope knows where the sun is and will actively avoid it unless manual commands are entered to override it for liability reasons. The scope predicts the sun's location using onboard software that's about a decade and a half old, no satellites are involved as this is a pre-gps model and the software itself is permanently encoded on rom chips. For the moon the telescope will allow you to automatically GOTO it without having to manually enter the coordinates as the moon is safe to view without the need for filters. Solar viewing with a telescope is exceedingly dangerous, don't do it unless you have lots of experience in amateur astronomy and really, really know what you're doing.