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Old 29-12-2006, 08:51 AM
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Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)
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For Leon: How's your polar/wedges' GOTO?

Hey there Leon (or anyone else with an LX200GPS and wedge)

Now that you have your LX & wedge set up, is it performing well for you? How's the alignment? Have you done a drift align yet? And... how's your GOTO work now?

I've just bought h0ughy's SuperWedge so that I could mount the scope in polar mode on the large field tripod I have rather than the other wedge I have, which is for when I get around to building an observatory.

I set it all up last night and managed a reasonably good p/a, but found that that GOTO was way off - like 2 or 3 degrees off. I'll work on it again before Lostock - hopefully the forecast rain and clouds will blow away before the end of next week. Mine used to be almost perfect in alt-az mode.

Also - English forks in equatorial mode are a tricky thing to slew aren't they? I'm constantly battling the handset's directional arrows to move it all in the direction I want it to go. The German mount I have on the 8" Newt is a piece of cake, to move where I want, in comparison.

Cheers mate!
Chris
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