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Originally Posted by peter_4059
Mike - good to hear it worked - did the tip for working out which way north was on the laptop screen work?
I was thinking about your other post about Stellarium. I don't use it but was wondering if it supported sync? If not you should consider using something that does for use with EQMOD as it makes setting up and refining the goto pointing model so much easier. CDC is a good (free) option.
Peter
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I must confess I still got confused with direction for the North South bit, but being able to see the star on the PC screen made it so easy to align the EW and NS slew movements and then just gently move the mount direction, it didn't matter. After about 3 or 4 nudges, I knew which was the correct way.
I tried CDC, it's a nice program, very complete, but I just don't care for the sky presentation compared to Stellarium.
Stellarium does have a sync function, it's just less user friendly to access as documentation is quite sparse in that area. Now I've read the EQMOD docs, I can still use the alternative dialog box method there as well, which I was unaware of last night. so we'll see how things go.