[Daveskywill (David)]

Hello everyone:

My Meade LX200 GPS is mounted on an equatorial wedge like I've told before. But the thing is I never get "perfect" alignment with Polaris. I just try to point the Scopebuggy as best as I can quickly and easily by eye the scope fork mount with the line of sight to Polaris. I don't even use the finder scope for that. Partly I don't mess with it too much because it's kind of hard to get up high on the scope (without a small step ladder). I guess I could use for the scope to be mounted a little lower (to the ground) but I'm not sure how to do that?

Anyway, I'm using a Meade power supply (that's from Meade for outlet use) and use an extension cord to get it out to my observing site. And that's all fine, but when I get the Meade powered on, and I'm wanting it to track even whether it's the Moon, planets or stars, it will never really track at that rate. I've found that it's slow, by a certain amount. So I have to keep pressing the west button to make it track faster (at 2x rate slew).

Does any one here know of a reason why this might be happening?

Do I need to join a Meade group on Yahoo?

This last option I'm starting to check into (Yahoo).

Thank you everyone.

David