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Old 01-04-2012, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by DavidNg View Post
Hi Bert,

I am new in every aspect of astronomy. After spent many nights and tens of hours of drift alignment following often contracted instruction from webpages, I managed to have fairly still star on illuminated reticule over more than 10 mins at both North/equator star (for Azi) and West (for alt), from then I tried TPoints run, quite accurate on almost every slew....then the trouble, I followed the Tpoint recommendation to adjust the mount azi/alt (off over 100arcmins), back to SkyX...every star slew is far far off...My drift alignment and TPoint seemed fighting each other. Please help... I want to get this alignment business over and go on to do other more interesting things..

David
Hi David,

If you adjust the mount's Alt Az using the polar alignment directions from T-point then that model is no good anymore because things have changed.

You have to delete the model and do a new T-point model.

I'd have to read the manual on this point again as you may also be able to do a synch on a star to realign the model after adjustments with the Sky X.

Fortunately its a superbly written manual.

Greg.
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