Re: What is Hell is this thing?

From: RichA (none_at_none.com)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:08:30 -0500

On 31 Oct 2004 01:53:32 GMT, CeeBee <ceebeechester@start.com.au>
wrote:

>RichA <none@none.com> wrote in sci.astro.amateur:
>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=74929&item=
>38487
>> 78319&rd=1
>>
>
>It's a two axis stepper drive; you can fit your telescope into it,
>connect it to a computer controller or PC/Laptop, and use it to move and
>point your telescope very precisely.
>
>But as the above description is available on the page as well, it's not
>very likely you're baffled by the function of the stepper, but by
>something else?

Yes, just what it was in it's former life. I knew Meade and Celestron
(I owned a $250,000 ice measuring thing that had at it's heart a C8
optical assembly with the most beautiful non-mirror shifting focusing
mechanism you've ever seen!) did government work, I just didn't
know what the thing was actually used for.
-Rich

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