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Originally Posted by jase
PolarAlignMax is fantastic. Relatively easy to use, though you may want to download some improved star databases. I downloaded the USNO-A2.0 catalog that has 526,280,881 stars. The catalog is approx 6Gb in size, but is great for astrometry plate resolve. ftp://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/usnoa/
Also recently got a copy of MaxPoint to improve the telescope pointing model. This also tells you how far off polar alignment you are.
Drifting is still the simplest, but I've always used software to assist or reconfirm alignment. |
Looking into this one too Jase looks good, The pier is a rock, so as soon its right should really not need to make adjustments for a while, Im considering deliberately introducing some error in alignment be it small so that guiding can be positive , as the LX200 in my opinion is inadequate in its fork tyne construction at 14" at 17 deg south polar mounted, flexure is allways going to be an issue. Im still trying to figure out what is going on with the systems innability to reliably piont, Ive identified two issues, thus far, firstly the forks flex more laterally than they do longtitudanaly, that is odd you would think the opposite on visual inspection...secondly, the whole alignment seems to be affected by temperature, yet to be pinned down...
Its a mission...
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