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Old 20-06-2021, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by OneCosmos View Post
Hi Dennis, I don’t understand that. It has a dec axis and guiding happens in both axis right? If dec plays no part in tracking why would guiding in dec ever take place? On the Star Adventurer et al you can only guide in RA but on a full mount you have both enabled.
If you are perfectly polar aligned the mount only needs to rotate in RA. Of course you will normally be a bit off and the mount may have error so guiding is done in both RA and DEC.

Where were you pointing when trying to calibrate?
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