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Originally Posted by madwayne
Hi Duncan
Are you doing a three star alignment? And making sure one of three is on the opposite side of the meridian to the other two? Your first alignment star will usually be well off (outside the FOV your finder, or it was when I tried it with my EQ6) but the next two should be pretty close. The aim is to draw a big triangle around the part of the sky your are viewing/imaging - if you knew this my apologies for pointing it out.
Also, you bought the mount from someone on the forum, is he in Canberra by any chance or do you need to adjust the lattitude on the side of the mount?
I've made these suggestions on the assumption you are entering lattitude and longtitude correctly as well as the date in the correct format on the hand controller.
That's all for now please report back  .
Wayne |
Hi Wayne
Yeah i knew what it was trying to do, and yeah the first star is usually way out, and the other two, not so bad. I got the mount, leveled it (checked all over with a spirit level) and set the angle of the tilt with a digital inclinometer so i know its pretty good. Alignment has been set with a digital compass pointing to the pole rather than magnetic, although i have a compass and have worked out the amount of degrees its out from the pole, and i have covered as much as i can.
I suppose drift alligning of the pole would help, to get it as accurate as poss.
does anyone have any general advice on this mount?
thanks