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Old 08-03-2014, 04:36 PM
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If doing planetary imaging, don't bother with a star alignment - if the polar axis of the mount is fairly well aligned with the south celestial pole and you can find Jupiter OK, that's all you need. Just set the mount to siderial track and keep adjusting the dec to compensate for any slight drift due to PA and you should be able to image OK.

If the mount won't track without doing an alignment, start the one star alignment process on any star that it suggests, but push escape as soon as it starts to slew. When it exits the alignment routine it should be tracking in RA and you can then use the keypad to move the mount to Jupiter and centre it manually as above.

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