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Originally Posted by Chancellor
Also, make sure that you have set the tracking to sidereal rate as this could also be causing issues if you select the wrong one. (I only mention it because I was bitten by this once).
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And I'm soooo glad you mentioned it because this was the biggest part of my problem the other night. Apparently the Synscan doesn't start tracking in sidereal until you have it slew to a star (or do a 1/2/3 star alignment). I set it manually when I switched it on last night and it made a huge difference.
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Originally Posted by Octane
A good way to tell if you're making the right adjustment is to time how long it takes for the star to move a known distance
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Such a simple concept but this helped me a lot too. I set it up on a known point on my screen, sat down and watched the skies for a few minutes, came back to the screen to check where things have moved.
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Originally Posted by Octane
Once you can attain 5 minutes without movement, swing the scope back to the meridian, and check again. Unless your mount is 100% perfectly level (spirit levels lie!), when you make an adjustment in one axis, it affects the other axis, too. Hence the iterative process
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Another great tip for me. I only worked for 2 minutes without movement (impatient I know!
) but it was good for my second real practice at it.
Cheers,
Af.