When I look at the menu on my handpiece, there is no "Wedge Align" in the utilities. Does anyone know why this is? Btw I have made my own wedge and just struggling. Alt azimuth is not good for doing long exposure photography due to tailing on stars.
What I am trying to do is use my scope to do deep space photography but at the moment I have found the setup to be very elusive to do an alignment of this nature as it is not working properly at all. I have tried to contact Celestron but that is very hard to do. Now it appears you have to join up to their chat group that has no question or answers in. Bloody useless!
Also information about finding true celestrial south is not the information that makes a lot of sense. There is a lot of info on finding NCP but next to nothing "for beginners to hone in once" to understand easily finding SCP. Things like 5 degree angle of view re one way to get a bearing of SCP means nothing to a beginner. I am wondering to my self is that the view from my eye to find these stars or from my scope or from my finder scope?
Anyway these stars at that point of "Polaris Australis" will be revolving around also and then at different times the stars will be position else where on a 360degree circle. So if you if anyone has any idea of a well written step by step detailed setup using a Celestron CPC Alt Azimuth scope what we beginners may need to do or find when making these alignments, please help or direct us to these pages
I would dearly love to join a club locally but that active club is about an hour away or more from where I live and meetings start at 8 at night. I am not retired but getting close to it (4years away, I will be 68 then)
and late nights in my week are not good for a demanding job.
Then again what is a "rough alignment"mean
. Some say near enough and others say spot on?!
Questions like this are discussion points where I am sure have been discussed somewhere in Ice in Space. Any idea where these are and make good sense?