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June 22, 2008

LX90 Declination Stopped Working

June 22nd 2008 Posted to Astronomy

I don’t know what’s up. I was using my Meade LX90 (12 inch) tonight to check out Jupiter. I realized I would have to move off of th deck and get to the open common yard behind the house.

I moved the scope and attempted to align it to Vega.

It moved to the right, but never raised itself to find Vega. I tried multiple times. Finally, I tried just plain moving the scope with the Autostar arrow keys. I can do right-ascension, but I can’t get the scope to go up or down.

I am severely bummed.

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June 10, 2008

WWDC and iPhone

June 10th 2008 Posted to Astronomy, Computers

Of course the big news today is the new iPhone. But for me, the most interesting is the SDK for building fully native applications for the iPhone.

The possibilities for astronomy applications are making me drool…

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