set up

[daz01968]

hi ppl.......after setting up my celestron 6 do i have to put the scope in exactly the same place every time i want to use it or can i move it around the garden without do the complete set up bit

[ronin]

Move it and you have to perform the alignment again.

You can move it night to night but you would do the alignment each night anyway.

[Kropster]

You move? You gotta realign!

[Gazabone]

Definitely have to redo the alignment. The alignment process is to enable the mount to figure exactly what direction everything is. If you simply turned your mount by (for example) 5 degrees anti clockwise you'd find that all you targets you asked the scope to point at would be 5 degrees to the right of where the scope was pointing. It's a bit like playing pin the tail on the donkey really!

[Tinker1947]

If your just viewing through the scope, then you move it, it will need aligning again, but not to accurately you could mark the spot where the tripod feet sit and every time you move to another position mark these spots, so after a while you could just  swap to pre-marked positions, if you want to image then proper alignment will be required even with the tripod sitting on pre-marked positions, 

[Stropper]

Hi daz

I'm a newbie and I find setting up gets me reused to how the scope operates and starts it cooling down so getting better views. So not time wasted for me even though I set up in much the same place very time