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Originally Posted by platt.michae18
Thanks for all the tips!
Will be getting guiding soon, just need to find a guidescope.
Mick, Make sure your facing true north or south and not magnetic, there are apps you can get to find true north/south from your location. (its different for everyone.)
If anyone has a guidescope laying around I'll buy it 
Thanks all!
Michael platt |
Hi Michael,
I can't see the South Celestial Pole from my yard, so I do my best with a wooden contraption I made, a inclinometer, and proper compass with magnetic declination set.
Sometimes I set up and all seems pretty good and the next day it's not. What I have realised is how tiny errors mess you up. The other day I set up and asked the goto to go to the sun, it did, I then asked it to go to the moon it missed. So I made several small adjustments until it would nearly centre both.
Then I parked the scope to see how far off I was - one mark on the Dec scale and a margin so small on the RA scale you'd need micro tools to measure it.
I have also discovered I have cone error that I need to fix. When my mounting plate on the mount is at 33.94, which is what I want, the scope itself is at 34.2 - 34.3
Cheers
Mick