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Old 15-07-2013, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by h0ughy View Post
because of the weather and being crook i have placed myself in a position of not putting this up yet and testing. probably still wont get a chance until astrofest, but there is one thing that is bothering me and that it how it will work with tandum saddle bars? with the eq6 you could spin it around and it didnt matter, but noiw with the encoders and the home position i am not so sure? I am looking to setting up a c11 and solar scope side by side?
It's possible to sync the encoder positions off a catalogue star - it has really sharpened up my pointing. That will ovecome the first issue. A one star alignment alows you to update the home position offset, which should sort the second.

Its worth knowing about those two settings and they make a big diffrence to pointing when settting up the scope in any configuration, and as is typical, are hardly mentioned in the manual.
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