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Old 17-03-2008, 08:47 PM
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I use a CCD for drift aligning. My guidescope has the DMK connected anyway, so I just use IC-Capture and Al's on-screen illuminated reticle for drift aligning.

Can take as little as 10 minutes, or 30+ minutes, depending on how accurate you want to be and how permanent your setup is.

I must admit, I have never (not once, ever) used my EQ6 skyscan in GOTO mode. The first 2 times I tried to align, it was terribly off because of the DST bug or not polar aligning properly in the first place, or whatever other reasons I can come up.

Since then, I just point to the object manually (slewing) and then track. That's it. Of course it makes it harder when the object is very faint, and your eyes aren't dark adapted from staring at a laptop screen. It's times like that I wish I'd bother to setup the GOTO.
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