Thanks, Jon and everyone else who responded, although I was beyond mechanical problems like you describe when I posted my message. Today I had more extensive discussions with SBIG about the problem. Based on the error messages I was getting and that they were able to reproduce it is their opinion that the filter wheel is not communicating with the camera. They suspect a loose-broken connection somewhere, which has happened before. It is being shipped to them tomorrow for repair. As an aside, on Monday I received a 35mm Panoptic. When Bill Van Orden brought his Panoptics to my star party earlier this year I discovered that they are very excellent eyepieces and had a better image than my old 1976-1977 vintage Meade 32 mm Erfle that has a 65 degree apparent field of view. Some may think this is obvious, but this Meade eyepiece is a very good eyepiece, even compared to many others today. The 35 mm Panoptic is better, but not much, if one does not object to a little star distortion very close to the edge of the field of view. As a result of getting the Panoptic and now having stars that stayed sharp all the way to the edge of the field, I discovered that the Meade 2" diagonal that came with the 16" LX200R is not as good as it could be. I observed that starting about 2/3 of the distance from the center of the field of view the star image would start getting distorted and enlarged going toward the north edge of the field of view. The other directions had sharp star images all the way across. When I rotated the diagonal 180 degrees, then the north edge was good, but now the south edge had the problem. The Panoptic allowed me to discover this, but it also made me spend more money today, rats, to replace the diagonal with a Televue. I am told it should arrive tomorrow. This seems a little quick, but if it does arrive I will be testing it tomorrow night. I have heard that Televue and AstroPhysics are the only two manufacturers that use a different type of process to coat the diagonal giving much better transmission of reflected light. Stan Jon Christensen wrote: >I don't own an SBIG camera that filter wheel will fit anymore but when I had >that problem once it turned out that a filter wasn't screwed in tightly >enough and hit something inside the wheel. I tightened the heck out of it >and all was well... > > >Jon Christensen > > > -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.