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Great stuff rogerg. Interestingly, you don't seem to park your 'scope after use each night--but the following night do a one star alignment.
I find being able to park is one of the many joys of having a fixed mount in an observatory. When the wife switches the TV on to watch 'The Bill' etc.....I'm out of there and looking at the stars in seconds, thanks to the park function.
To put the record straight, putting the wedge on the pier and the 'scope on the wedge I have always thought of as being the easy part. The difficult part (so those who have gone before tell me....up until this forum that is) is aligning on the SCP and balancing the scope according to what you have put on it- and vice versa. In the alt az mode when viewing only, weight distribution is not critical, and I can put stuff on the scope and take it off almost at random ( as I do all the time---I like trying out different combinations of stuff. For example last night I was experimenting to find out which gave you a better DSLR photo shot of the planets through eyepiece projection--an off axis guider or a flip mirror. I was surprised to find that, at first outing, about the same) .. It seems to me that once you have committed to a certain set up and weight distribution with a polar aligned wedge, you may have to stick with it for a while, unless you are prepared to spend a lot of time doing it over again with your new set up. Or am I being a girlish worrier?
Chunky
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