[Hemi]

Dear Members,

I’ve had the mount for a month or two and has been purely used in az mode for visual...replacing my evolution mount. It’s been fine in AZ, but gotos have not been great.

In any case, I thought I would Learn to use it in eq. This is my first eq mount, and I’m struggling.
I’m using the sw WiFi dongle, and the SynScan pro app for all mount commands.

I’ve leveled the tripod with a spirit level. Marked a line southward on the floor with the dec offset, and aligned the mount to south. I start at the home position with scope south and counter weights down. Latitude is set using an inclinometer.

I complete a 3 star alignment....only the 3rd slew gets me close to the alignment star, otherwise the first two are at least to full large telrad circles away. Alignment completes successfully. I then do the polar alignment routine....choose a star and then follow the instructions to re centre using az or alt knobs.

The problem is asjustment of the knobs never centers the star. The routine asks that you use only the az adjustment and then only the latitude adjustment.

Sorry for the long post and I hope I’m making sense.

Thanks in advance for any insights to what I’m doing wrong.


Cheers

Hemi