PDA control cable & CD Kit for Meade ETX Autostar

Meade telescope & Meade Autostar can be control from your Palm OS PDA. The Palm OS PDA control cable & CD Kit is all you needed. For ETX-70AT, Meade ETX-60, Meade ETX-90EC, Meade ETX-105EC and ETX-125EC Meade telescopes.

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PDA control cable & CD Kit for Meade ETX Autostar

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Control Meade ETX Autostar from
Palm Hand Held Organizer

Control Your Meade telescope with #/495 or #497 AutoStar
From your Palm Hand Held Organizer

Yes, point your stylus on the Palm organizer screen and control the telescope. Point to a Planet, a star, a galaxy... on your Palm hand held screen and command the telescope to point to wherever you have selected. This is a cable set and software combo that allows you to control your Meade telescope with Meade 497 Autostar from your Palm organizer. The software sends commands to the Meade #495 or #497Autostar to control the telescope.

Compatibility

Runs on PalmOS 2.0 or higher.
Uses gray shades on PalmOS 3.0 or higher.
Uses colors on color devices.

You need a serial hot sync cable for your Palm PDA. Different Palm PDA model may need a different serial hot sync cable. This cable is available on ebay for about $10-$15.00 depending on model. This Palm/Autostar cable & adapter set connects the Autostar to the Palm device in the cradle OR with a Palm serial hot sync cable. The Palm PDA, cradle or Palm serial cable is not included.

This cable/software set works with any telescope with Meade #497 Autostar ( firmware version 22Et or above)

#497 Autostar controlled
Meade ETX series telescopes

Meade ETX-90EC
Meade ETX-125EC
Meade LX-90
Meade ETX-60AT
Meade ETX-70AT

#497 controlled
Meade Digital Series Telescope
Electronic Controlled

Meade DS-60EC
Meade DS-70EC
Meade DS-80EC
Meade DS-90EC
Meade DS-114EC
Meade DS-127EC
Polaris DS-60EC
Polaris DS-114EC

This cable set and software is custom made for the Palm Organizer and Meade Autostar

This is NOT compatible with Meade 505

The Field Guide for Meade ETX-Autostar

The Step-by-Step guide book for the ETX-Autostar Observation System

Are you frustrated that you ETX-Autostar is NOT doing what you want?
Is your GOTO accurate?
Don't sell you Telescope out of frustration!

This is the Step-by-step book that guides you through all the setup, alignment to achieve precision GOTO night after night without frustration. All the little tricks that makes setting up, aligning and using your ETX-Autostar observing system easy. Over 50 information packed pages with many illustration and photographs. A collections of many hours of time and frustration saving experience.

This Field Guide is for owners of all Autostar Controlled Telescopes

Autostar controlled Meade ETX series telescopes		Autostar controlled Meade Digital Series Telescope Electronic Controlled
Meade ETX-90EC Meade ETX-125EC Meade LX-90 Meade ETX-60AT Meade ETX-70AT		Meade DS-60EC Meade DS-70EC Meade DS-80EC Meade DS-90EC Meade DS-114EC Meade DS-127EC Polaris DS-60EC Polaris DS-114EC
The ETX-Autostar observation system
The ETX-Autostar observation system consists of the ETX telescope, the Autostar and the Tripod. How you set up these three components would determine how precise and consistent is your observation. You need to look at the ETX telescope, Autostar and the tripod as an integrated system. There is no overall instruction for the beginner. There is a manual for the telescope on how to use the telescope. There is also the very brief manual on how to setup the Autostar. There may be a manual for the tripod. Each part of the observation system (telescope, Autostar and tripod) comes with its instruction with very little overall consideration. It is important the system work with each other. Worst of all, the manual assumes that the beginner user know how the entire system should work together. This guide book take the entire ETX-Autostar observation system as a whole and guide you though step-by-step process to integrate your telescope, Autostar and tripod in to one observation system. You will achieve precise GOTO night after night after night without frustration. There will be no consistency without precision steps. A small error here, a little off there, and these little imprecision add up to big error. If setup properly, the ETX/Autostar telescope, is amazingly precise even at such a low cost This guide book will show you all the precision steps require for perfect results. This field guide is designed to show all the essentials on how to setup and align the Meade ETX/Autostar Observation system with precision without going into a lot of boring theory. This is a practical guide that if you follow the instruction, you will get the desired result.

This is how good you GOTO can be:

By following the instruction in this guide book, you can expect ALL target stars will appear in the viewfinder, better than 80% of GOTO targets will appear (not necessarily centered) in the 26mm eyepiece of the ETX-90EC. You may not need to use your viewfinder after followin my method. If you follow the instruction here, you will get good GOTO consistently, night after night of comfortable star glazing without frustration. The instructions here will show you the step-by-step process how to achieve precision results.

Total setup and alignment time for perfect GOTO: 10 minutes!

Topics	Step-by-step and precision instruction for:
What is In the Guide Book:
The System	The ETX-Autostar System: the telescope, Autostar and tripod How the system must work as a whole.
Telescope setup	Precision viewfinder alignment Precision DEC Dial setting. Precision telescope leveling for Polar and Alt/Az Home position. Precision Home positions (Polar & Alt/Az)
Autostar	Precision Autostar setup Get exact Latitude and Longitude of your address without a GPS unit Precision time from an atomic clock and precision to hundredth of a second. Fine tune Autostar with your telescope Correct and precision method to Train Drive Eliminates drive lack time (telescope does not move immediately after you push the button) Eliminates jerky telescope movements Eliminates and avoid motor failure messages Autostar problem troubleshooting
Tripod	Precision Leveling Precision setting of Latitude
North	What is North? Which North to use? Magnetic North and Magnetic declination compensation Geographic North North Celestial Pole How to find the EXACT True North Celestial Pole, precision method
North alignment Do you know you must align North before a Star alignment?	How to use compass for north alignment and magnetic declination How to align with the Pole star. How to align to the North Celestial Pole precisely for perfect GOTO and tracking Align only once for permanent type telescope pier or stand.
Star Alignment	Star alignment Overview and Essentials Pre-alignment check list Precision star alignment method Star Alignment troubleshooting
Eyepieces	Eyepiece focal length, magnification, field of view reference table
Computer Controlled Astronomy	GOTO from the Computer Screen Control the telescope from your compute, point the telescope to a star with your mouse.
Computer Software to control your telescope.	Learn Astronomy the easy way. What can be easier than looking at the computer screen and compare the screen with the sky. Point and Click the telescope to the star of you choice right on the computer screen. Want to see all the stars of a constellation? Just point and click on each star of the constellation from you computer screen. There is no need to find them yourself in the sky. Hold down the left mouse button and drag, the sky rotates with your mouse movement! Your browse the entire sky with you mouse. Spin the mouse wheel and you zoom in on the target. Tips on setting up your Autostar. Find the EXACT longitude and latitude of your location. Connect and test the connection of you telescope with the Autostar. Quick setup of the planetarium/telescope control software. A simplified user manual/quick tip for immediate use of the telescope control software.

Planetarium and Telescope control Software (Included)

Yes, point your mouse on the computer screen and control the telescope. Point to a Planet, a star, a galaxy... on your computer screen and command the telescope to point to wherever you have selected. This is a cable set and software combo that allows you to control your Meade telescope with Meade 497 Autostar from your computer. The software sends commands to the Meade #495 or #497Autostar to control the telescope.

It is very simple and fun, these are the steps:

Install the planetarium software in your computer.

Configure the software similar to the way you configure the Autostar by entering the location (Longitude and Latitude) and time zone. The instruction to find you EXACT Longitude and Latitude of you address is included also. Yes, that is it. You can custom configure the software if you want but you can use it with just this simple setup.

Connect the Autostar to you computer with the cable set, a notebook computer if you want to be really portable outdoor.

You align you telescope the same way using the Autostar.

Activate the connection between the telescope and computer and you are ready to have fun.

Point, Click and make the Telescope Points
You simple select any object (star, planet, constellation) on the computer screen, click a button , and the telescope start "slewing" (telescope movement is call slewing). The telescope then point to the selected object and stop.

You wonder where the star, planet or constellation is in the sky? You can use the Find function to find and point your telescope. You may type in the name of the object or select from the drop down menu if you don't even know the correct spelling.

NO MORE DOWNLOADING! SOFTWARE and GUIDEBOOK NOW ON CD

You are purchasing one Autostar-PDA cable, and the Field Guidebook for ETX-Autostar in Acrobat PDF format on CD only. NO printed material is sold. The software are available on CD to you at no charge, FREE, with the purchase of the cable sets and the Guidebook. This planetarium and telescope control software is a freeware. This a full version, un-crippled freeware with no trial or expiration period. NO upgrade is needed. The author Franck RICHARD welcomes donation as you wish. However a donation is neither required or demanded to use this software. The seller has written permission from the author Franck RICHARD to copy and distribute this freeware. The instruction included gives you all the information needed to install, setup and quick start instruction for the software. The seller reserve all copyright to the ETX-Autostar Field Guidebook. Buyer is not allow to re-sell or transfer the ETX-Autostar Field Guidebook for any reason. The cable set include a custom configured DB-9 to RJ-11 adapter and cable. The color of the adapter and cable delivered may be different from the photo.

Disclaimer
The name "Meade", "Meade logo", "ETX", "Autostar" are trademarks of Meade Instrument Corporation. Seller has no association with Meade Instrument Corporation. This product is neither sponsored nor authorized by Meade Instrument Corporation. Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trade mark, manufacturer or otherwise, is not an endorsement or recommendation.

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