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Old 29-08-2018, 01:14 AM
Hemi
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Darwin
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More progress and minor achievements

....it’s 2am! Up in a few hrs!

Hi Malcolm, I’m not guiding.
Hey Zuts, I can’t see the pole to photo it.

I found the SW adapter that came with my Celestron star sense (had planned on eventually buying the az eq6) and set it up. Did an auto align using the HC. Sorted out the gotos.... ran the Celestron ASPA a couple of time (it must have still been out significantly from the SW PA routine). Found it a bit easier to use as you can use both manual axis (az and lat) to align the reference star. Ran it a couple of times and then realigned. Much better....I can now get roughly 60s unguided. No star trails.

Then I connected the Celestron HC to the PC (Mac parallels) and sharp cap recognized the az eq6 mount using the Celestron driver, all good with plate solving and mount redirection.

Finally I got sky safari for Mac talking to the mount using a mini usb to usb cable and a serial driver.

Thanks all

Hemi
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