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Meade Telescope Connection to PC

Autostar End of 505 connector cable — rj10 (the smaller “Handset” size)

 +-----------+     1- Data TO Autostar Black 
 |  1 2 3 4  |     2- Data FROM Autostar Red 
 +---+   +---+    3- not used Green 
      |___|           4- ground Yellow 
  Hole in Autostar 

Other end of cable

                           1- Astar Rcv: data -to- Autostar  (PC pin 3) (25/2)
  +-----------+      2- Astar Xmt: data -from- Autostar (PC pin 2) (25/3)
  |  4 3 2 1  |       3- not connected
  +---+   +---+     4- ground reference   (PC pin 5) (25/7)
      |___|

Looking at holes on end of 505 cable

 2- data to PC Yellow, 3 - data from PC Red, 5- ground Black 

  ---------------
   \ 5 4 3 2 1 /
    \ 9 8 7 6 /
      -------
             Yellow on autostar to Black on RS232 - common ground
             Red on autostar to Yellow on RS232 - transmit data from autostar to PC
             Black on autostar to Red on RS232 - transmit data from PC to autostar

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