tigertyson

Hi. This boxing solution looks great to me.... but.... what is the box and where did you get it from please? As a total newbie I am still at the stage of wiping everything down at 10 minute intervals🥴 Your system and cable management seems the way to go as the gentle heat from the linear psu will help to keep the dew away I recon, and I already have one of those left over from an ongoing amateur radio project!! I checked out Ikea and other places but I tend to get a bit confused when vendors start quoting depth and height etc. Any help is appreciated.👍

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. Yes I agree the Polemaster is brilliant and, as I am 72 it saves my back enormously 🤪

As a beginner I tend to struggle with the basics and ask stupid questions so please bear with me! This question relates to my previous latitude setting issue in a way... As I was having so much trouble locating Polaris I bought a QHY Polemaster and it works wonderfully after setting the EQ6 latitude to 60 degrees, (my location is 53 degrees and at this setting Polaris is completely out of view). I still don't get why the dial is so inaccurate. However once the mount is polar aligned do I perform a 3 star alignment with the handset or in software such as NINA? I'm confused 😂 Thanks for your patience if you've read this far! (and it's still cloudy in Derby😭)

Thanks for the (quick) replies. I will definitely leave it at 60 then. I wasted a good night trying to find Polaris. I think the latitude scale on the EQ6 is rather cheap and poor.... the pointer doesn't even reach the scale on my mount!! Thanks again for the help. Just ordered the angle tool as well. That's going to be interesting too. Clear skies hopefully🙂

Hi all, Very new to this lot so please forgive my ignorance, I have read the Sky-Watcher EQ6-R manual cover to cover. When I set the mount up I crank the latitude dial up to 53 degrees which is my location. I have been 3 days now trying to polar align through the polar scope to no avail. Polaris is simply not visible, no matter how far left and right I adjust the azimuth screws. However, purely by looking at Polaris and deciding that the mount needed to point higher up I increased the latitude to 58, and there was Polaris. My questions are:- Has anyone else had this issue? How accurate is the scale on the dial and what have I missed?!! Any ideas/thoughts welcome. Clear skies