[Kstars-devel] LX200 GPS 16" With KStars

[Jason Harris]

Hi Jasem,

That looks very good, it's great that you now have access to such a 
telescope.  Good luck, and please thank the Kuwait Science Club!

Clear skies,
Jason

Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Today I had the chance to try to control a truely huge
> LX200 GPS 16" scope with KStars. While I wrote the
> driver for this scope a few years ago, I never had the
> chance to test it directly, and today I did.
> 
> The scope is owned by a local astronomy club that is
> part of the Kuwait Science Club. They also have 12"
> GPS, 8", 10", a few CCDs and other goodies! So it
> looks like there is a _lot_ of testing and
> improvements coming up. 
> 
> One idea is to utilize the scope to perform automated
> search to look for 'dwarf planets' or less exotic
> objects in the neighbourhood :) At any rate, I'll have
> a direct feedback and might end up developing the long
> sought 'guiding' feature if possible. 
> 
> The first test was successfull, we had a permission
> problem at first that took a while to sort out. We
> took some pics. I'd like to thank Maryam AlJoaan for
> taking the pics. The images speak for themselves,
> enjoy! 
> 
> http://indi.sourceforge.net/kstars/first_attempt.jpg
> 
> http://indi.sourceforge.net/kstars/damn_permission_problem.jpg
> 
> http://indi.sourceforge.net/kstars/success.jpg
> 
> (the little red dot in KStars is the LX200 GPS
> crossair. Next to me are Fatma, a young amateur, and
> Ali, the club secretary).
> 
> http://indi.sourceforge.net/kstars/chat.jpg
> 
> Clear skies,
> Jasem
> 
> 
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