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Originally Posted by Astromaniac
G'Day Jeff,
I'm not sure I'm following you. If the Moon is low in the West (even if you can see it) Venus is high at the Zenith, roughly. Venus it's visible after 6pm high in the West not in the East. I would make sure to have the correct coordinates and time. Even better I would do a proper star alignment before doing anything else.
MHO, I've been proved wrong before. 
Cheers,
John |
Hi John, thanks for the reply.
Sorry about my loose words. When I said low, it was actually at 30 degrees (so maybe a better phrase would have been "low-ish")
As for those positions, I just read them off Stellarium and according to that, at my location (Canberra) at 3 PM today, Venus was at Az/Alt +74, +63 and the Moon at +279, +32. And I'm certain that I've set up Stellarium correctly for Canberra.
When I initially set up the AVX, I soon found that they don't even have Canberra as an Australian city (the county's capital
), so I had to enter the lat/long manually. I've double-checked those values and I'm certain that they are also correct.
But if the mount just consistently pointed to the wrong place I'd be a lot happier than I am, since that would just indicate some kind of alignment error (most likely on my part). It's the different behavior after a clean start following the same steps that's the real worry!
But thanks for trying to help.