bert
24-08-2008, 09:27 PM
I have a CG5 running 497 autostar and meade ds motors, unfortunately I am having trouble with the goto function.
On powering the unit up and starting the easy align it usually pick rigel kentaurus (alpha centaurus) and points the ota at the ground. Usually the right ascension is right and the dec has to be moved from pointing at the ground to the sky. The second alignment star is also ra close but declination way off.
After alignment when I try to goto something its usually in the finder but nowhere near in the telescope, and it usually gets worse over a night.
Polar alignment is spot on.
Has any lxd or roboscope owners had any similar issues:sadeyes:
Brett
On powering the unit up and starting the easy align it usually pick rigel kentaurus (alpha centaurus) and points the ota at the ground. Usually the right ascension is right and the dec has to be moved from pointing at the ground to the sky. The second alignment star is also ra close but declination way off.
After alignment when I try to goto something its usually in the finder but nowhere near in the telescope, and it usually gets worse over a night.
Polar alignment is spot on.
Has any lxd or roboscope owners had any similar issues:sadeyes:
Brett