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Originally Posted by glend
Tony, i don't know alot about your mount, but i did have an NEQ6 Pro for years, can you not simply park your scope in its normal Home position, then loosen the clutches to move it manually to clear the roof. Then you can close the roof. When going out again, open the roof, and loosen the clutches to return the scope to its Home position, then your right to go.
Its pretty easy to do that on a scope with setting circles, and if you don't have them little alignment marks on the housing can do the job. My new CGX mount, has Home sensors, so i can Park the mount in any position, then simply powerup and return to Home. You can probably work something out.
If your handset is not accurate its probably due to your Polar Alignment. There is nothing wrong with Synscan HCs when it comes to goto functions. Since your in an observatory take some time to get the PA perfect. A simple way these days, is to download Sharpcap 2.9, which has plate solving PA imbedded in it, and its free. You can use your scope and camera to precisely polar align, and it only takes a few minutes following the onscreen instructions.
BTW, SGP has a dedicated Forum that contains many questions on the topic of Integration, it would be worth looking there if your determined to tackle that now.
Good luck.
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thanks Glen, that's exactly what I currently do regarding the clutches, what I was after is to park the scope where I want and not use the hand controller at all. the system your suggesting defiantly works was just after full control from Laptop.