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What is a red dot finder? Thanks for the tutorials! Edit: I already watched this tutorial 😉 the procedure is clear, but I couldn't find any of the stars. The basic direction was right but the field of view seems to be so narrow, that I wonder all over the area but didn't get a lucky shot on finding it. I expect it to be clear when like Beteigeuze comes into view? So far I only saw small white dots and 7 satelites.

Hello everyone, so I got back in touch with the seller of the telescope and he told me it all has only to be vaguely correct, with a 2 to 3 star alignment afterwards I'll be fine. For a beginner it's a little tough, the manual sais so, the seller so and the community even differently. For myself the green rings didn't make sence so I balanced the scope used the handpiece to turn it 90 degrees exactly and then taped these triangular post-its which are ment for signing documents to the mount and now its easy to return to home. For Polar Alignment I bought an iPolar which kind of annoyed me at first but when I first used it, it was amazing. So thank you all for your input and all the posts to help a beginner After having the telescope for about a month now, today was the first time there weren't any clouds so I finally was able to set it up and use it for the first time. I balanced it, northed it, polar aligned it but I wasn't able to star-align it. I used different stars like Beteigeuze, Aldebaran and Alnilam but whereever the mount went to, I wasn't able to find the correct star. The direction was quite right from what I could tell roughly. I have a 5mm, 12mm and 28mm ocular which were suggested by the seller. I used the 28mm so I'd have the widest field of view. I tried for 2 hours to find some bright star in the field of view but always failed. I told it to show me Jupiter, it went in the correct direction but was off, I couldnt find it. I used an app to figure out what I was seeing and where to move too, but that was to tough, I never found the stars in the app I saw in the telescope. I haven't got any idea, what I am doing wrong. Is the ocular wrong? Any advice? Many thanks and have a nice weekend! Dan

Thanks again! The Problem is, I can only do this with one axis, since I can't lock the scale on the RA Axis. If I lock it, it doesn't move, if I leave the screw out, I'm not sure if it turns exactly like the axis... Maybe it was good for the old polar alignment scope... I'll try that, but if that's the solution for this expensive mount, I kind of feel ripped off. Funny thing, in a different forum in November 2015 someone posted this regarding the "new" polar alignment scope: I too got that A5 Paper with the exact same wording 9 years later... I think I'll find a way to fix my "home position", I found a hint where with the SynScan I can turn one axis 90 Degrees so I should be fine without that one useless scale ring. But I still don't know how to polar align this or more precisely how I get that clock in the scope perfectly aligned with 0 beeing up and 6 down. I did not understand this, could you explain this differently? Many thanks and greetings!

Hi M40, thank you for your help! Is polar aligning this way accurate enough? It still be quiete vague, if the "time" is guessed won't it? Regarding the "rings", I must have expressed myself wrong. I added two pictures of these green scale rings. The one without my art in it, can be moved and fixed to the axis. Like set it to 90 when in level, then I can always return to this position and I know its leveled or turn it to 0 then its correct for home position. The other one thoug can not be fixed to the axis, if the screw is tightend, the ring doesn't move when I turn the RA Axis. So theres no way for me to return to a once determined position of which I need two (1 is home point, 2 is correct alignment of polar scope with 0 up and 6 down) I always have to level again. I am thinking of sticking these pointy arrow post-its for signaturing documents on the mount, so I can return to this positions. But there must be another way than sticking post-its to an quite expensive piece of technology lol

Hello everyone, my Name is Dan from Germany and I'm very new to astrologie and using a Telescope. A Shop put together the HEQ5 and a Skywatcher 200 PDS and some accessories for me. I build it all up it the living room to see how it all works and I have two major problems to which I'm seeking advice. First thing is the "home position" for the SynScan, I understand from Videos how its done with the fixing of the green rings to the leveled axis but with the heq5 I can only refix the green ring form the DEC axis. The one for the RA Axis doesn't move when the screw is tightend. It does move though when I losen it, but it then can easily be moved by hand and it doesnt turn without sticking some times. Also it seems like a waste of time to always measure the level of the axis prior to every stargazing session. How have you guys fixed this issue? Second thing is the polar alignment. The Polar Scope moves with the RA Axis, the manual just sais put 0 on top and 9 on the bottom... well this is kind of vague judging this through this little scope every time when I'm outside. The trackers succesfull guiding will pretty much rely on a exact polar alignment. Here again not beeing able to fix the green ring with the movement of the axis is super annoying since one can't do this once precisely and return to it later. How do you guys manage this efficiently? Many thanks in advance and appologies if language isn't accurate, I'm not a native speaker 😉 Dan