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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
Hi Rob.
I'm trying to work out what you are actually asking.
Are you asking How to Polar align the Mount?
or
How to attach the Telescope onto the Mount correctly?
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Hi Ken,
As mentioned, all my prior scopes ( 3
) were either manual alt/az (no drives) or meade/celestron goto fork mounts.
So I have had no prior experience setting up and aligning a german equatorial mount based scope
.
The post in the beginners section explains how to do this which I have followed but I think either my mount polar alignement is still off or my alignment of the Tube on the mount is not correct or off.
Whatever it is when I try to do a goto the scope does not put the correct object in the eyepiece view.
Assuming that the mount itself is correctly polar aligned and it is something else that I am not doing correctly or missing after I polar align the mount where could the problem be?? ( always accepting possiblity of the user
)
Should I be orienting the OTA in a particular fashion?? or aligning the OTA in a particular way??
thnx