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Old 23-05-2010, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by coldspace View Post
I have now mounted my LX scope onto a Milburn wedge for the first time tonight.
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I leveled the fork arms, balance is pretty good on all axis, pointed the tube at the pole, turned on auto star, went to easy align, the scope went into some smart drive operation on the hand controller, .....
I know I am pretty close to polar alignment as I can keep a star in the centre field of a 9mm eyepiece for at least 5mins. After 15minutes it may have drifted about fifth field of view in the 9mm eyepiece.
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I can't get my goto accuracy working on the wedge, .......
Matt....You MUST have RA Pec = ON to stop the slew at startup
Here's my proceedure which will fix your woes
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