Weasner's Meade ETX-90 User Feedback

ETX-90 USER FEEDBACK

Last updated: 4 December 2004

This page is for user comments and information specific to the Meade ETX-90RA (originally known as the "ETX Astro"), the ETX-90EC, and the ETX-90AT. Comments on accessories and feedback items appropriate to other ETX and DS models are posted on other pages. If you have any comments, suggestions, questions or answers to questions posed here, e-mail them to me and I'll post them. Please use an appropriate Subject Line on your message. Thanks.

Subject: ETX-90RA and computer link
From: "Alain Brun" (alain.brun@neuf.fr)
Date: December 2, 2004 15:43:16 PST
Thank for your great site.

I would like to buy a  ETX-90RA without autostar option (old scope
version as I saw on your pages) for a low price (<130 USD) but I would
like to know if it is possible to connect it to a computer to have a
GOTO function or to connect a  Autostar 497.

Is it  possible, with a  low budget? if yes with wich type of material?

Thanks for your support

Alain Brun

Mike here: No, you can not connect an Autostar to the RA model. You could, with some effort, add a declination drive and a computer controller, possibly write your own software, and then you could control it. Alternatively, you can mount the ETX OTA on other Autostar (or other GOTO) capable mount. See the Telescope Tech Tips page for some ideas.

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