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Old 28-08-2011, 06:47 PM
mikesim (Mike)
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CGEM polar alignment issues

I'm having some trouble getting a proper south polar alignment with my CGEM 1100 which means my 'goto' goes to 'nowhere'. I do the two star alignment (normally start with Alpha centauri as the double star is easy to identify) and then try and add a calibration star (which slews to nowhere so i need to move the scope around with the hand controller to find the star). Then I try the polar align routine (slew to a star and then use the dec/az screws to align the scope with this star). Still no luck. I manually slewed to Saturn for a great view but would like to be able to use the goto function so as to make finding items of interest a lot faster.
Help!
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