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I'm planning on buying a Meade ETX90 for Christmas,and today I was looking at some screenshots of the ETX90,I saw the Autostar tracker you get with it,and then I noticed that the Autostar tracker was plugged into a small base just under the scope itself,the small base consisted of all these other plugs is there a USB on the base and if so can I plug my Camcorder into my Meade and video record what I'm seing through the Scope?

2007-07-24 00:31:14 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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I don't know the answer.Sorry,I want to help you,but I have several matters to attempt to,and by that.I mean I don't want to help you.

2007-07-24 00:52:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

No, you cannot use a USB port on the base of a telescope to take pictures. If there is such a port, it is probably so you could use a computer to control the pointing of the telescope.

To take a picture, you need a camera that looks into the eyepiece. I have simply hand held a camcorder so that it is pointing into the eyepiece like my eye would have and gotten usable pictures. For better pictures though, you need to remove the lens of the camera, remove the eyepiece from the telescope, and connect the camera to the telescope in place of the eyepiece with an adapter made for that purpose so that the telescope just becomes a big telephoto lens for the camera.

2007-07-24 09:40:50 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0 0

No, there is no USB port on the Meade ETX90. You can download the instructiuon manual from Meade's web site.

2007-07-24 07:53:00 · answer #3 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 0 0

I don't know that model specifically, but if you want to take pictures there are Eyepiece camera adapters. There are ones that allow you to couple a camera to the telescope, or have a video output, like this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Meade-07166-Electronic-Eyepiece/dp/B00005QWZ4/ref=sr_1_1/103-4115984-7002249?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1185276875&sr=8-1

Check Amazon.com, Meade.com, and Celestron.com for good choices.

2007-07-24 07:36:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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