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Old 14-10-2017, 09:28 PM
DarkKnight (Kev)
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Thanks for the replies Gents.

Due to my inexperience with, and ignorance of things astronomical, I probably tend to form an overly simplistic view. In the words of Julius Sumner Miller, I have always wanted to know "Why is it so'.

We are in the Southern Hemisphere, and if we look South the stars seem to be rotating in a clockwise direction, and I do realise that it is actually the earth rotating in an anti-clockwise direction, so we need to set our mount's sidereal tracking to 'clockwise', or 'S' on the Star Adventurer, to compensate for the apparent counter rotation.

If we turn 180° and look at the sky, the stars appear to be moving in a counter clockwise direction, and in my naivety I deduced that all I needed to do to alleviate the necessity of swivelling the camera 180° was to align my mount in a Northerly orientation, do a North facing drift alignment, and reverse the mounts sidereal tracking direction by changing the switch from 'S' to 'N'.

My head is starting to hurt.
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