Celestron Telescope Cable, NexStar RS-232 93920
Celestron Telescope R-S-232 Cable-93920 allows your NexStar telescope to be controlled using a laptop computer or PC.
Once connected, the NexStar can be controlled using popular astronomy software programs. Celestron Telescopes RS232 Cable connects to your PC?s serial port. For use with a USB port, you must purchase a serial to USB converter from your local electronics retailer.
Features of Celestron Telescope Cable, NexStar-RS-232:
- Allows your NexStar telescope to be controlled using a laptop or PC
- Connects to your PC?s serial port
- Cable Length is 62"
The RS-232 serial cable connects to the Nexstar hand controller and to the drive base port of some Shmidt Cassegrain Telescopes. The other end connects into a computer. One end of the cable is a phone type jack, (RS-232) and the other end is a standard serial computer input.
With CD ROM software this cable will enable your computer laptop or desktop to interface and control the telescope by pointing and clicking on sky maps shown on the computer monitor. With certain telescopes the cable allows downloading additional data from the Celestron website into the database of the Nexstar computer hand control. Other images for this product: No other images currently available
