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Old 20-03-2011, 04:47 PM
stevemac
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Unhappy Synscan update - alignment problems

We are sure that these isues have been adressed in other threads, and we have searched around trying to find them, so if someone could point me in the right direction we wil be a eternally appreciative.

We have 12 Dob with Synscan Goto. Recently successfully(we believe) updated the firmware, SynScan(TM) EQ-Mode Firmware (Ver.03.27) however we have not been able to correclty align the scope since then.


Checklist: We have ...
  • Factory reset
  • Cleared PAE
  • Re entered coordinates multiple times
  • Recleared every setting we could think of in the setup; park and utility menus
  • Rechecked that the date and time are entered correctly (the US way)
  • Even reloaded the firware update
  • Tried the startup from different positions (SCP; North vertical horizontal)
The scope simply does not "goto" the first star, nor second star, nor third star. The scope slews around to at least 90deg offset and sometimes aother angles. We have searched the Skywatcher website, and looked for ealier versions of the software, that we could reload "backwards" to, to try to reset, however we cannot find any.

The scope did work well with the old software and had no difficulty realigning every time we pulled it out and started up.

Any thoughts?
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