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Originally Posted by NeilW
I followed Shark Bait's instructions exactly, but the HEQ5 seemed to want to track in the opposite direction to the sun. I spent the whole transit manually adjusting the scope position. Any suggestions? The only thing that wasn't quite clear was the step
At this step it presented me with an RA position, which I assumed was the current object I was poining at (Sun). I just hit "Enter" at that point.
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Hi,
For the Venus transit, I did a South Polar Alignment with just a good compass for pointing (the mount was already set to Sydney's latitude), then did a one-star alignment on Aldebaran, which was quite nearby the Sun at the time. When I saw it slew to pretty near the Sun as desired, I pressed the Enter key and of course it said "successful". Then a little manual slewing to the Sun, and setting of Setup - Tracking - Solar Tracking, and it required little intervention after that.
All an experiment, but it was alright on the day
Cheers