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Old 06-04-2010, 12:31 AM
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erick (Eric)
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Update! Better, but no cigar!

Set up WITH SCOPE pointing roughly at SCP, then sent it off on a two star align - first stop Rigel Kent. Fairly close - jump onto the slewing buttons. What the?? It has a mind of its own in the RA axis when I try to centre the star.

A bit of searching the paperwork and I find "rubber banding"! A bit more fiddling and I find the numerical results of the training I did. Dec - 550, OK. RA - 16,000, that's a bit more than 650!!! It looks like I can edit the value to whatever I want - but before I figured that out, I said I'll train it again. First attempt - 4,000. Second attempt - 12,000. Third attempt - 1,200. STOP right there and try two star align again. Rigel Kent, then Sirius - not too bad, close - I centred each and hit OK. It likes that alignment. OK, machine, go and find Saturn. Plenty of whirring later, it was fairly close - woo hoo! OK, try to sync on Saturn. Done. Hey M104 isn't too far away - goto M104. Miles out . Reckon something is sus' here. Sent it away to park the scope and it gets the Dec back close but RA a fair distance out.

Seems I'd better do some investigation of my RA axis mechanics.
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