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Originally Posted by Draco
Hi Guys
Checked the manual online and I am doing everything as expected. Will give it a go tonight again and if all fails, will take it to Bintel since it is still under warranty.
Thank you all
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Draco,
I'm confused - did you, or did you not, start the evening's viewing with a "Two-Star Easy Align" as set out on pages 18-20 of the user manual
http://www.meade.com/software-manual...=6:lx90-manual ? (Page numbers are for Meade manual ref. 14-6700-21 rev001 07/12 - see the last page of the manual to see if we're using the same document.)
In this post you say you are doing it all "as expected", but in an earlier post, you said you "don't remember doing any set-up procedure for the mount". (You would remember aligning the telescope if you had done it. If you never saw the "Alignment Successful" message on the handset, you have NOT aligned your mount.) Once you have gone through the initial alignment procedure a couple of times, it only takes 2 - 3 minutes to get your scope aligned each time you set it up.
If you skip the two-star alignment procedure, you can drive the mount as a dumb powered Alt-Az, but it won't track stars, or GoTo targets. (I guess the telescope controller "assumes" that it started the night in the "Home North" orientation, or some other default orientation, so will drive the motors accordingly, but the tracking speeds will be all out of whack if that was not the case.)
Once you have done the initial alignment, you can GoTo any target in its database (or manually enter the coordinates), or just manually drive the scope around using the handset controller buttons (
DON'T release the clutches to manually slew the scope!), and it will track whatever you stop on once you release the drive control buttons.