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Thanks for the ping, Joe!

I took it out yesterday and aligned the finderscope. The moon was up and visible during daylight, so I took a look at it, both with a Plossl and with a Barlow attached. The postal carrier gal happened by, took a peek, and thought it was severely cool!

Last night, I used the basic electronic handbox controller that comes with it to manually track Jupiter. It resolved to a nice, clean disk, with color bands visible- very nice.

Today, I am switching it over to AltAz alignment and slowly working through how to orient and train the Autostar contoller. I have set the elevation plate to 38 degrees (near San Francisco), set the tube to Home Position and I am reading through the manual.

I am a bit hampered in all of this by being quite ill, and I have big nasty palpitation flurries that make me pack everything up and haul it inside for a rest, so it is slow going.

If anyone else has a Meade ETX90-EC, I can post some links to really good info that I have found on the Net.