[Daveskywill (David)]

Hello: my cem60 is carrying my AT80 apo with a 50mm Meade finder/guider

on it. it's mounted on my concrete pier in my 10X10 obs.

and on the first few nights I wanted to start polar aligning it and using

the Sky X, polar scope, and found that the tracking rate at "sidereal" is too fast

to the west so I needed to use "lunar" to make it quicker to the east.

pps I still need to update the firmware. it still has 8407+ HC 140630

and Main: 140720

so I need the 140825v newer one

then on my finder/guider using a qhy5 ccd for guide with the 50mm PhD2

said the star hadn't moved enough in RA so we upped my calibration steps.

So now finally I'm really guiding, but we found that it actually functions

better with guiding off then gets wild according to graph in PhD2 when guiding

So Terry Hancock and I figure that I need to do 3 things: Get a better

polar alignment using "offset", 2. upgrade the firmware. and 3. increase my

guide rate from .5x to .8x sidereal to reduce the guiding

fluctuation/agressiveness.



pps: any tutorials on using "offset" to polar align this (cem60) mount?

And by the way, yes this is really the same guy who used to have a Meade

LX200gps 10" F10. well I still have that scope, and wonder should I

defork it and put it on this cem60 mount?

Thankx

xoxo love you all

David