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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
As such, if you release the clutches, it wont know ( or care ).
Thus, slew to a well identifiable star, Acrux or Rigel Kent are good, as they are unmistakeable doubles, and let it track till stable ( say 10 secs ).
Loosen yr clutches and manually rebalance as reqd. Once done,
manually slew the OTA back to the target star ( without using the HBx )
You can normally get the star back into the centre third FOV of a 26mm EP this way.
Once its close, lock the clutches, fine centre with the HBx and then do a synch. Yr back and running and no loss of alignment.
Andrew
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Thanks Andrew, I just learnt something new also.
Anytime I'd tried a re balance on Anna's scope I couldn't get it to to track correctly (hence a realignment). I now see where my folly was.
I should of been manually slewing back to an alignment star instead of using the HBX.
