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Hello
I own a Celestron Nexstar 114-gt telescope and I have tried to set the quadrants and I would like to use lat/long.
My first problem is that I need to find a good place to find the lat/long of my location and cant find anything and once I do how do I enter it. When I get to the place to enter the city of quadrants I dont see a lat/long option. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, AJ
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werewolf6977
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Try Heavens Above site. they've got lat-long for just about everywhere! Pete
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WO Zenith Star 66 Patriot Edition
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Anonymous
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Thanks Pete
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square_peg
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Another site that gives your lat. and long. is:
http://www.geocode.com/modules.php?name=TestDrive_Eagle
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Tom (Pegster)
DSH-8 (GSO Dob)
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Syzygy
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Why not just use the nearest city from the database? It's quick, easy, and it works well without causing any GoTo or alignment problems.
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b1gred
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Why not take a look at a VFR sectional chart at work and plot your home address from that.
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Anonymous
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Thanks Randy,
I have gooten the information from the great ideas people gave me here and did not have to read those god awful charts. LOL. Are you a pilot or an Air Traffic Controller. I dont use those charts much at all so I really was unaware they had that info and wish I had known last week.
Thnaks for the infor: AJ
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b1gred
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Loc: Castle Rock, CO 6677' MSL
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AJ,
CFI A-I SEL MEL AGI
Been teaching flying (free lance) for almost 30 years. Lat and Lon clearly gridded on all the charts. If you're near Class A or B airspace the local charts for that airspace are even better due to their scale.
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werewolf6977
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If his Nexstar 114 is like my N8, you don't need to enter lat/long data. Just do a good twostar alignment, and away you go! Pete
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Pete
6" Apogee/LXD55
Starhopper 6" Dob
Spaceprobe 130EQ
Black C8 OTA
WO Zenith Star 66 Patriot Edition
Sun Pak Pro 7500 Platinum Edition
8X42 Bushnell H2O Porro
7X35 Tasco
10X50 Nikon Actions (Type 7)
15X70 Skymasters
Dell Inspiron Dual Core 531s
"For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know"
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Anonymous
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If his Nexstar 114 is like my N8, you don't need to enter lat/long data. Just do a good twostar alignment, and away you go! Pete
If this is true (and I don't doubt you), why bother to enter longitude & latitude at all? Or is this just because the N8 has a built in GPS?
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werewolf6977
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Magicboy, my N8 is the Classic N8. We don't need no stinkin' GPS. As a matter of fact, I DON'T enter lat/long. The one thing the auto align does do besides find your alignment stars for you is to query date/time. It needs this to goto the planets. However, if you're like me you cann see the planets/moon naked eye, so you don't really need goto for those. Just slew with the hc, and center in your finder and there you go! Pete 
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Pete
6" Apogee/LXD55
Starhopper 6" Dob
Spaceprobe 130EQ
Black C8 OTA
WO Zenith Star 66 Patriot Edition
Sun Pak Pro 7500 Platinum Edition
8X42 Bushnell H2O Porro
7X35 Tasco
10X50 Nikon Actions (Type 7)
15X70 Skymasters
Dell Inspiron Dual Core 531s
"For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know"
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square_peg
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That explains why it doesn't slew to planets on two-star alignments! Doh!?! You're right Werewolf, this isn't a problem, since even newbies quickly learn to recognize the planets. Two-star alignments are fast and easy. Just make sure you mark orthagonal on your mount to speed up the process. 
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DSH-8 (GSO Dob)
15x70 Oberwerks
ED80/SVP
WO 66P
Sears Discoverer EQ 60/900
8x42 Regals
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
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