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EQ8 3-star alignment is not very good.
Has anyone with this mount done a 3-star alignment only to have the pointing accuracy way out afterwards? It seems others on the Yahoo Skywatcher EQ8 group are also experiencing this problem.
My EQ8 MELAZ is 5' and MELEL is 4' yet, whenever I slew to an NGC, IC, Messier object or a star, it's no where near the centre of the SXVR M25C CCD working on C14 faststar which has a 2 x 1.5 Deg FOV.
Mirror is locked and scope and CCD all aligned before a PA using the old and tried Eq. drft alignment. The mount's RA tracking BTW, is superb. Ten minute unguided exp. are very real.
I think Synta needs to do a firmware update on this pointing alignment. Crickey, even my Titan 50 and EQ6 point a lot better than this mount.
James
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