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Originally Posted by TR
Yes, it's like a drift alignment on steroids. I made a cheat sheet of instructions located on my desktop that helps me dial it in quickly. It has stuff like to move mount west in Az, turn knob X. I also have what each graduation represents on the adjustment knobs. The exact measurements of what the short and long marks represent are in the AP manual. I have the same for Altitude adjustments, ie, to lower mount, turn Alt knob clockwise. Again, the graduations are in the manual...
Terry
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Thanks Terry, I looked into this. According to the 1600 manual:
AZ
* One full turn of the azimuth knob is approx. 0.3733 degrees (22.4 arc mins)
* the small graduations are 0.74 arc mins and
* the long graduations are 3.7 arc mins.
ALT
* One full turn of the altitude knob is approx. 0.41 degrees (24.6 arc mins)
* one half turn of the altitude knob is approx. 0.205 degrees (12.3 arc mins) and
* one quarter turn of the altitude knob is approx. 0.1025 degrees (6.15 arc mins).
I'll keep these handy! Cheers.