Hi 1 ponders
My nexstar has a number of alignment methods one of these is sky align which for beginners like myself is quite useful in that I dont need to know the names of the objects to point at. I simply align the scope with any three bright objects and give the scope the time and location data and it works out what its looking at.
Another method is solar system align which allows me to centre something obvious like the Moon Mars Venus etc, and it aligns on this however, as you would expect, this method doesnt provide too much accuracy when using gotoand certainly not as much as the three point align method. Other methods I believe could be more accurate but these require me to know the stars and this is where I must study. Maybe this would be more accurate still.
I do have a facility to remove Backlash in the gears for both directions of travel. Is this what you mean by training the drive??
From memory, I dont believe the initial alignment with the north celestial pole was required due to the other alignment methods, however, I will re read the manual to check.
Thanks for the support.
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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
Hi muddy.
While I've not had a Nexstar, I imagine the intial aligning process would be similar. Some nights I found my LX200 way off in goto and other nights it would be center of the eyepiece every time. What I found was in the nights that it was way off I was doing the initial alignment on an incorrect star/stars. With some of the LX series (notably the 200, 90 I'm not sure) you had to make sure your scope was pointing closesly towards the north celestial pole. Is this the same with the nexstar and if so how close are you getting your initial positioning?
What about drive training? Do you have to train the drives of a nexstar? You do with some of the Meades
CS Hope this have given you some ideas and avenues to check
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