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Old 07-11-2011, 01:35 PM
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Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)
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On my Tak EM-10, there is no two star alignment as such. All I do is polar align as usual (using my guidescope/camera and PHD) and then physically slew to a known star on or near the meridian. I centre that star on my main scope (or red dot - close enough), find the same star on my iPad in SkySafari and after centring it hit "Align" using the telescope control. From there I can use the app and phone to slew me reasonably accurately all over the sky. Relying on the drift alignment being performed first lets this work to a reasonable degree. Question is: does or would the EQ6 allow you to slew X-steps to a location if its internal logic isn't sure of what's where... or would it act dumb and simply obey a slew command anyway....

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