Hi everyone, I’m having problems with finding things.
I have an HEQ5Pro, with a William Optics FLT98 refractor plus a 50mm f4 finderscope [which is correctly aligned with the scope axis].
But no matter how careful I think I’m being when levelling and polar aligning the mount, then doing 2- or 3-star alignment with the software, then correcting the “Mel”/”Maz” numbers to as small as possible, target stars almost never appear in the telescope eyepiece first-time; I thus need to use the finderscope to try to find, then centre the target star, but my judgement of when the star is in the centre of the finderscope eyepiece seems to be rarely correct - I put it in the centre of the finderscope eyepiece then look in the main scope eyepiece but the star is not there. So I need to use the hand controller to move it around, but there seems to be no easily predictable direction-of-movement based on the direction buttons on the Synscan. It just wastes so much of my time.
Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks
Tony
