Hi Mike,
Did you find the FS2 controller improved the performance of your mount?
I don' think my NJP is capable of that image. But then maybe it is and all it needs is an expert with the polar alignment scope.
I don't know how you manage to use a Polar Alignment scope in the southern hemisphere - that is impressive. I even took a CCD image of the south celestial pole to see if I could find that trap of stars and still couldn't see it.
Greg.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
I dunno...the PME just needs a good Polar Scope  ...this took about 10min to align 
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...31590/original
The above was done after using the polar scope but I didn't use the scales in the scope but rather I had drift aligned in the past and memorised the field in the polar finder so just pointed the cross hairs at the known pole...I recon I now get it better than Taks guarantee of 2' just using the polar scope   ..of course draw back is if you can't see the pole 
Sorry Marcus, you know I love your PME (and you) and I would loooove a PME too but all this modelling required to get essentially what we have with our Tak mounts in minutes would be a pain if I bought a PME and remianed portable 
Obviously in an observatory (and for many other reasons) the PME is king
Mike |