Thread: Does the level of your mount affect goto accuracy on wake-up?
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Old 31-10-2007, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Aster View Post
Ken,

I used to have a EQ5 Goto earlier this year. Upgraded synscan to ver. 3.1 as soon as I got it home.

Quite often I parked the scope pointing at an object low down , covered the scope, went to bed, got up a few hours later, told synscan to go to the object I parked the scope at and that was it. Continued from there without going to the rigmarole of a 3,2, or 1 star alignment.

Version 3+ had quite a few extra commands compared to version 2.5.

Maybe some of this will help.

Alexander

Ahhhh, so it only works if you leave the power to the scope turned on?

I meant from night to night.
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