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Issues with Celestron GPS scope and new hand remote
I have an 8 inch Celestron GPS scope. About a year and a half ago, my hand remote no longer worked. I contacted Celestron and they indicated I needed a new hand remote. It took over a year to arrive. With this new remote, the GPS align option is no longer available. Celestron's suggestion was to get a compatible scope with the new hand remote. Are they kidding??!! A bug in their software for the hand remote required it to be replace and now they are saying I need a compatible scope. Yikes!! What a nice marketing ploy. And by the way, GPS align appears not to be an option any longer - even with a new scope.
So, my options at this point are to use the 3 star alignment process - which is a pain in the butt. I don't have enough open sky to find 3 bright stars, even though they say the alignment process would also work with the planets as well.
This is mostly a gripe session against Celestron - but do you folks have any suggestions on what has worked well for you all?
Thanks,
Jeff
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Re: Issues with Celestron GPS scope and new hand remote
Does your old hand controller say Nexstar or Nexstar+?
I imagine the new one is Nexstar+.
If you have not, you can read about the differences here: https://www.nexstarsite.com/Manuals.htm
A firmware update may correct the solution for you as well.
You can also email Michael Swanson (owner of site) and see if he has any helpful advice.
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Re: Issues with Celestron GPS scope and new hand remote
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I found this for you: This telescope preceded Celestron's move towards an upgradeable hand control, AKA Nexstar version 4 for those of you in the know. The ramifications are that the internal GPS cannot accurately set the date, and this cannot be fixed. Your options here are to manually update the year once the GPS readings are taken, or simply switch off the GPS and enter the time, date, and location manually. It should be noted that GPS on a telescope, back then, was always something of a gimmick; we used to tell people it actually stood for "Gimmick for Promoting Sales." This scope is the precursor for the current CPC model scopes of which I have one. I'm sure the optics are excellent and you would like to keep using this scope so hopefully we can iron out your hand controller issues.
I have nearly every hand controller (
Let us know how things go.
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Here is a very brief description from Starizona: https://starizona.com/blogs/tutorials/a ... xtstar-gps
See Far Sticks: Elita 103/1575, AOM FLT 105/1000, Bresser 127/1200 BV, Nočný stopár 152/1200, Vyrobené doma 70/700, Stellarvue NHNG DX 80/552, TAL RS 100/1000, Vixen SD115s/885
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Az/Alt: AYO Digi II, Stellarvue M2C, Argo Navis encoders on both
Tripods: Berlebach Planet (2), Uni 28 Astro, Report 372, TAL factory maple, Vixen ASG-CB90, Vixen AXD-TR102
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