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Originally Posted by AdamJL
G'day Martin
I've seen this mentioned before, but what exactly does it mean? I've never had a "home position" menu on my SynScan that I could see? (EQ6-R).
When I've "parked the scope" at the end of a session (not even sure why I do this, considering I take it apart when done..), the axes are never centred.
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Another reason to set home position is once home position is set and your Ra and Dec green rings are locked in at zero with the pointers or arrows , when your mount returns back to home posting after a session and the pointers are not back at zero , this tells you the Ra or Dec clutches have slipped and your alignment will be out if you start another session again. It has happened to me on a few occasions scratching my head why the scope didn’t end up exactly in the centre of a particular star like it did say half an hour ago after starting from home position again. Looked at the dec and ra rings and the pointers were off 5 or 10 degrees so picked up the problem straight away !!
Make sense !