Hi All
,
I have been a telescope user on and off over the years starting out with a cheap but nice quality small Vixen refractor on a wooden tripod with manual controls and later using a couple of smaller Meade and Celestron SCT's on the fork mounts
Based on a lot of positive reviews I have recently taken the plunge to upgrade to a takahashi mewlon 250 and takahashi em400. As this did not come with a GOTO I decided to purchase the SkyFi wirless controller and SkyVoyager software to provide goto control using my Iphone.
Apart from spending too much money
, I didnt think about or realise the setup differences between the fork mounts and german equatorial mounts
so now am in a little bit of a bind about how to properly setup and align both the mount and optical tube
I found a good article on here about setting up a german equatorial mount which has help a bit for setting up the mount but I still cant seem to get correct alignment at the eyepiece.
1. Is there something more/different that I need to be doing to better align the mount??
2. Should I be orienting the Optical Tube in any special position on the mount ??? The takahashi does not seem to have any special home position.
Any advice to help me would be greatly appreciated
