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Barry
Thanks for that. I did that very thing when I got it home, and had it out two nights alligned without any problems.
I had mounted a Canon DSLR on it and used Remote Shooting to centre the stars (if you are not familiar with the canon, in remote shooting the computer becomes the viewfinder, there is a square on the screen that can be dragged around and when selected the area inside the square becomes magnified , real cool for focusing). I was putting the allignment stars in a corner of the box, close as I could eyeball to the centre of the finder.
After doing that last night I tried to use the Pointing Accuracy Enhancement. It went according to the book, or sentence in the book more precisely, the only problem was the stars were smeared in the photos (20 second exposure), after a few shots, all the same, I noticed the mount appeared to be making a faint (for my old ears) high pitched whine and seemed to have a faint vibration, like one of the motors was still running.
I parked it and then discovered the difficulty with realligning. Powered off and did an allignment with the same stars as the first time and it failed. Powered off. Tried again with a different third star and it failed again.
Discovered this morning after my initial post one of the things I didn't know which is on your menu tree, delete PAE data, I did that and fired it up and it seemed to work without noise and vibration.
So I wait for tonight. Three quick ones for you.
Powering the handset to explore is mentioned, but not how to power off, I just pulled the plug and hoped for the best, figuring it must be designed for people to fall over the leads in the dark. Am I right?
Then, in I think setup menu, there is a Restore Factory Settings? Yes or No and no other choice except to pull the plug. Do you know what that is about?
Finally, to use PAE they mention eighty five area of sky, where are they and what happens if I select a star for an area seperate from my area of interest? This is what I suspect and am hoping happened last night, in which case I know half the answer.
Thanks a lot for your help so far.
Peter
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