OKay come back inside now after spending a little time sorting things out, don't ya love it when things go smoothly. I first tried out the scope basically as was, tried goto and didnt get very far,soI sat down and went through the alignment feature, well it didnt like that it kept saying I had to initialise the scope before I could initialise it :confuse:
I ended up doing the initialisations manually, goto data select star, move to star and centre, press Init#1, goto number 2 star centre it, press init#2. okay that good how does goto go then, slew to M42, okay scope slews and there was M42 on the corner of the eyepiece. So I centred it, told the program I was looking at it and reset the coords. Slew to Sirius, WHOA way off hmmmmmm. Okay restart.
Start at 0 alt 0 az did three star alignment on Alpha Tau, Sirius and Formahult(sp?) slewed to m42. smack bang in the middle, slewed to sirius, bang in the middle again, slewtom46, there it is slightly off the centre, slew tom45, there it is in the finder, too big for eyepiece. I wasimpressed, slewedover to the 8burst neb, and the slew finished but program halted but the nmbers were still hmmm interesting. After restarting a few times I finally gave up,there is a littlebug causing the program to do weird things when I slewto the opposite side of the sky. Will investigate this.
Cant wait to have NO moon to see more objects. With moon out made viewing some of the fainter objects almost impossible.
Oh one other thing I have to work on reduction of noise and vibration while tracking, at low power was fine but looking at mars at 222x proved almost impossible because of the vibration. stars came out as little dohnuts no matter how much I focused them.
Oh well. off to bed, didnt have an afternoon nap so my night ends early
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