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RA and Polar Aligning.
Can someone explain to me how RA and DEC interact when polar aligning. I'm having all sorts of weird stuff happening here when dialing in the EQ6 which I've never seen before. I would have thought RA would be constant, I don;t see how alt/az adjustments effect RA.
I just can't seem to get it to align and it seems to me that RA is running slow. If I dial in a custom RA it all looks good but I've never had to do that before. I have the camera x/y aligned pretty close to the scope and used PHD tonight. I shot down the pub for a half hour and left it collecting a PHD log for PEC and when I got back, DEC was right on the line but RA was half way down the screen. Oddly enough, both RA and DEC where off the graph but DX was on the line. I had guiding off.
I have just regreased and tuned the old eq6 and pe was around +/- 6 which is really too good to be true. I'm lost. I thought I'd move to a short FL scope and try again.
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