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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Nice detective work there Peter. Yes I thought it was odd when T-Point said no adjustment needed (and then it has lower by 1.3tics which is miniscule) but when I used accurate polar alignment the adjustments were in the opposite direction and quite large.
Hmm. Need to do another large T-point model and follow TPoint directions only.
Greg.
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Actually Greg, be careful how you read this! I put up another post at SB that Patrick Wallace answered.
1. The report that you normally look at is incorrect in ME and says to move the mount in the wrong direction.
2. If you go to the bottom of that page there is a check box for advanced PA settings. The information in that section is correct!
3. Accurate PA feature uses information from the advanced PA settings.
4. So, when you just ignored what #1 said and you just re-centered the star you actually did exactly the right thing! Your PA should be right on.
This seems to me to be quite poor on the part of SB. They have known about this bug in the S.H. for nearly 6 weeks but have not fixed up the report that all of us depend on. If I were setting up nightly in the field having the wrong info displayed this would probably stuff up lots of hours if not the whole night. I really think it has been a big mistake for them to wait this long to fix something that is probably quite easy to fix. Maybe we just don't count very much down here in the S.H. Admittedly the number of SB mounts in the S.H. is probably small comparatively. However, it is a serious community and I think deserves better.
Peter