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Old 09-12-2008, 09:58 AM
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33South (Chris)
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This thread brings back memories, although I still find after doing an alignment occasionally the goto just does not work. Switch off and start again do everything the same (???http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/....milies/doh.gif) all OK.

Some mistakes I made,

1. Date entered in the wrong format must be mm/dd/yyyy
2. Mount not balanced well enough especially with the heavier C11
3. After the slew to each alignment star did not wait for the BEEP BEEP before using the keys to center the star.
4. Centering the star by eye was off center, got a 12mm with cross hairs for fine adjustments.

1 and 2 would give trouble getting anywhere near the alignment stars
3 and 4 would give an apparent successful alignment but any goto away from the alignment stars would be way off.
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