[anthony2302749]

Originally Posted by g__day

So in alignment position I assummed each axis should read 0 00 00 or 90 00 00, but one on 90 and one on zero seemed confused.

The first set of digits represents Right Ascension (HH:MM:SS), the second set of digits represent Declination (Degrees:Minutes:Seconds).

I suppose when you first power up the hand controller after aligning the index markers you may get a reading of 00:00:00 for RA and 90:00:00 for Dec. Remembering when using celestial coordinate’s declination is measured in degrees north and south of the celestial equator. The South Celestial Pole is at 90 Degree Declination and would be written as -90 degrees, the minus denotes south of the celestial equator (0 Degrees).

Now remember at power up, the telescope does not know were it is and may give a reading of 00:00:00 for RA and 90:00:00 for Dec (This is the home position). The things in need to know is its location, date, time and the location of one, two or three star. Once it has all this information it can then compute the location of any object with in the data base of the handset and find them. The hand controller will give you the correct coordinates for any given object as well.


Still work on the other problems you are currently experiencing.

Just been reading the manual, very confusing chinglish, it should be re-written so that it will make sence.