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Old 28-08-2007, 07:32 AM
Dennis
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Originally Posted by swannies1983 View Post
This should be in the equipment section but given that it relates to tomorrow's eclipse, I thought it would be best in here.

I have an EQ6 with the DA1 handcontroller and I was just wondering if it was possible to lunar track with this controller. There is no specific "lunar" track option but I can increase or decrease the sidereal rate in steps of 0.039X. Am I simple able to adjust this setting to be able to track the moon? If so, does anybody know the rough tracking rate I need to type in?
I think that the true Lunar Rate varies in both RA and DEC in a non-linear manner. I think that the Gemini controller (a la Losmandy) re-calculates the Moon position in real time every hour and that’s how it manages to track the Moon.

Cheers

Dennis
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