Im confused, on the meade website it says two star alighnment with two stars plus polaris.With a good polar alignment your not on polaris (I dont want to give...
Hi, I converted my ETX90RA to the DS-60 mount after seeing this on the Weasner's site (earlier '99 - same as the one you referred to). Yes, this mount goes...
In my experience, Two-star plus Polaris works wonderful when you are in Alt-Az configuration. Also in my experience, Two-star plus true North works wonderful ...
... During Polar alignments, the Autostar moves the telescope to correct for the offset of Polaris from the true pole. If you have a "real" LXD55 mount, it has...
... Chris; Was curious...from your experience what are other common causes for motor crashes...and...have you found the nylon gears of the DS motors hold up...
I recently damaged the self same gear wheel when the DEC motor cable became trapped between the DEC and RA motor casings on my EQ 3-2 conversion - yes it WAS...
I think it might also be possible to clean up the gear a tiny bit and swap it with the first of the three identical tiny gears. It might not work in position...
Probably the #1 way to damage a motor is to be slewing the RA motor with counterweights in place but no scope OTA attached. Mount crashes can come from a...
thanks chris for telling me about this group! anyone do this, or is it very dumb? trouble: I have 2 autostar controlled scopes and 1 dob.... I want the dob to ...
Thank you group and thank you Meade. This is almost to easy. My first night out and it works very well and that's without any care taken setting up. point the...
Hi Dom, Taking my cue from Steve Beldair's page (see Links), I went ahead and did my Dob. I am working some Goto accuracy bugs out but it does work. It is...
My mount is dead on with true north + or - a few arc sec..when I start my evenings I do a star drift e.w. n.s. and get very good results(I go old school with...
... The quality measure of the system is how well it does GoTo's, not necessarily the quality of the initial alignment slew. ... Maybe. Maybe not. Half a...
Had some time a few days ago to go through the Percentages procedure... (Note: a little long and this is more of a confirmation for me than anything <G>) I ran...
Just to clarify, it looks like Tom's RA axis worm gear assembly on his GP-DX mount was loose. Talk about unpredictable backlash! -Christopher Erickson...
This is slightly OT for this list, but has anyone come across a software package, preferably open source, which can do starfield pattern recognition? I see...
... are ... Why not ask this question over in the Astroprogramming group? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astroprogramming/ ..seems like it might be right up...
Thanks Chris and Tom!! I already have an ETX70, but I like it the way it is. (Unfortunately, the "Frankenstein's" I've seen don't allow you to put the original...
According to the retrofit doc, the signs below are wrong. They should be Alt/DEC is -3.28533 Az/RA is +3.28533 This is what I have been using and it works...
the numbers for alt + dec are correct the + or - depends which end of the mounts worm you have attached to and which side of the scope the dec motor in on. ...
Hey Guys, So I am still fighting with misalignment. I just refurbished my CG-5 and it works a lot better. However, I am still not getting good alingments....
Correction: Going Between Mizar and Polaris doing iterative alignment. It would missPolaris to the right. If I corrected (tried moving the mount and also...
And another correction: Sorry it's too late. When I parked the scope, It would be on the right line to be polar aligned (polaris - kochab) but on the opposite...
I don't have any stars at night yet (almost!) so I can't duplicate Christian's testing. Anyone else out there who can help troubleshoot this problem? ...
Oops!! You say: "First Align, I do what other members have taught me. I put the scope in the polar home position and do an easy alignment. On the first...
... Things i'd try: (a) after a two-star alignment, GoTo other targets. How are they? (b) Don't use Mizar for the iterative alignment... Use a star -far- away,...
Hey Dick! I'll definitely take you up on it if I'm still having problems with this after the 17th! I'm in Maple Valley, south of Renton. Thanks to everyone...
Hmmmm.... Axis ratios still set to 3.28533? Remember that changing/checking the telescope model usually resets the axis ratios. -Christopher Erickson ... -- ...
Hey Pete, On the alignment method, I thought it was pretty much accepted practice. I got it from Chris and others. Anyways, it doesn't matter. I'm totally...
