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Old 18-07-2007, 07:44 PM
Doug
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What are you doing wrong Ken? You're pier mounted aren't you?
Those images I recently posted on/in 'the Als reticule' thread are 100% honest. From power up without any alignment at all, Jupiter is quite close, might even fall on a webcam chip; certainly close enough for any chip larger. I confident after a star alignment (with grease freed up) Jup would go pretty darn close to center.
I've never tried the Sun though; figured for safety reasons it would be placed in a no go zone.

cheers,
Doug

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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons View Post
Another quirk with the Skywatcher GoTo mounts is that they don't find planets. When you dialled in Jupiter and it went elsewhere, that's why. It's a Skywatcher thing.

When I want to look at Planets, or image the sun, I enter an object right next to the Planet/Sun (an NGC etc) and then slew that little bit extra to get to the Planet/Sun.
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