While most everyone else is at TPC, I am at home playing with the new 60mm telescope my wife bought me. It's way cool. Aside from the regular stuff, it has a computer so it can automatically find celestial objects, and you can hook that computer up to your PC and control it with the included software.
The CD even comes with ActivePerl (yes, it's Windows; I am running it under Virtual PC), to script the telescope, but the software is only scriptable for a certain number of days before you have to pay. Well, if I am able to hook it up to my Mac and control it via Virtual PC, I might do that at some point. For now, I am just learning to use the thing.
It also comes with an "electronic" eyepiece, for plugging the telescope into a video source, like a video camera or TV. So I can sit in my living room, control the telescope from the computer, and watch it on TV. OK, that's all a bit too perverse.
I can see me spending a lot of money on eyepieces and such for this thing. Gotta take it slow. :-)
Re:Details!
pudge on 2002-07-25T17:45:33
It's a Meade 2060-AT. We have virtually no neighbors; two street lights, both at a distance; surrounded primarily by the state forest and farms, so very little city light noise; and the house is up on a hill.:-)
