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I never implied I do a one star align., I use mostly a 2 star align and tried a 3 star. What is consistent is that when my scope stops the dso I am looking for isn't even in the FOV and I am using an ep that gives me about a 3.2° TFOV. It is consistently about 10-11° west declination from my scope which I then manually move to the dso selected . And by the way I am not complaining but I asked very specifically ' do I use True North or Mag. North when when doing a North Levelling Alignment and where is that clearly stated in the user guide ' ! My only real concern is why the dso I have selected is not in the FOV of my scope provided that I have aligned it properly and thus my True vs Mag. question. Once confirmed I don't think I will have a problem getting there. PS: I will keep your set of instructions as a reference though.

Please give me the location in their user guide where SW confirms that in their application, just for my information.

It sure hasn't worked for me yet, read my posts as to my procedures, my exact location realative to it all is well set, Magnetic North is about a 10° west declination from True at my viewing location and when my scope stops at a selected object it is about 10° east of the object thats why I asked about Mag. vs True. I intend to try both next time and by the way my mount and scope are levelled as close as is possible as per their instructions.

Thank God it is !

Whats the big hurry to get them out, isn't it easier, smarter to wait till many more get theirs and determine what you / they really need / want ? LOL ! PS: Do you or anyone else think the world of the SS will end tomorrow or maybe its just plain old boredum, lol ?

If you are a WL / Ha astronomer you must know, I hope you know, that when viewing the sun especially in the afternoon when max heat is rising and a breeze has come up that solar seeing conditions can change by the minute especially when taking photos ie good one moment and pp the next. So why would taking them with the SS be any different, criticize all you want but make sure you know your solar ........... ! PS: So when many of these solar pics were taken who knows the conditions !

Interesting !

It remains to be seen one way or the other.

Come on now ! Haven't you realized its a great compliment to WL / Ha ! Not a replacement and if you don't already have those systems then guess what, it saves big $'s, lol ! Don't you think, lol ?

Some have said you don't need a mask, that it doesn't improve anything !

So how does it connect, do you insert it in the battery compartment ? How about a pic or two.

Many times a little off means nothing, you can only get so close on uneven ground, it can't be anyother way when each leg is at a different ground elevation. Someone once said ' close enough is good enough ', lol !

I would have thought that SW would have been very specific, very clear where no one could miss it because it is a very important instruction in this whole excercise of alignment with their product. SW is usually pretty good, I have owned / used a lot of their gear over many years. We shall see !

Thats what I wanted to see but I don't know why my target dso is always about that 10° west of where my scope stops, every time ? My levelling, my True North alignment and etc. is checked and double checked over more than one nite. I will try using True North again but I will also try it with Magnetic North next time as well. PS: Having said that it might be the compass on my ipad, I will double check the True North vs Magnetic North settings also and then check it with a couple more compasses, that may be where the problem is !

What makes sense and what is actual can be different sometimes ! I would like to see the instruction (actual) in writing somewhere, I haven't seen / found it yet.

I use a 2 and sometimes 3 star alignment, very rarely do I use Polaris based on my yard location. I use my ipad which is as good as it gets for everything.

I am going to try Magnetic North now because True North use is way off as I mention, I use az .

I was / am using the north level alignment using True North as I mention. Now I am going to try Magnetic north but I wanted to confirm my use of true north. I do it using an electronic compass on my ipad that will show either True or Magnetic North alignment ie the approx. 10° west declination difference.

I was told some time ago on this site to use True North not Magnetic North ( compass ), in my part of the world Magnetic North has a west declination of about 10° from True North, when setting my Gti alignment and levelling. But when I do use True North my targeted dso object is about 10° to the left of where my telescope stops ie I have to manually shift my scope to the left to make it line up. This tells me that I should be using Magnetic North to set my alignment for the nite not True North. Its quite consistent with every object. Did some one give me the wrong instructions when I asked or what am I doing wrong ?

Thats all well and good until you get ' out of stock ' or ' discontinued ' or ........ , its not as easy as you think ! Have you even tried it, really ? But thanx anyway, lol !

I am almost 76 yr. old, ' planned obsolesence ' was a catch phrase way back in the 60's, that terminology is nothing new, lol !

Just don't count on it, it may be in the form of a new, way more costly model but who knows how far down the road.

Many newcomers to this end of the hobby, who just want to be able to see something that they always only were able to see in other so called experts posts won't even care about a slight field rotation in the outer fringes of the results. I have been in the hobby a long time and I sure won't, that is left up to the perfectionists, I know I was a one at one time !

You are correct so how do you intend to keep it doing what you want it to do, need it to do above a snails pace, during crashes, etc. ? Have you ever tried to buy a replacement battery, some years ago I had a Samsung Note4, it worked perfectly, it needed a new battery, I couldn't find one in literally the world, I had to scrap it and bought a Note10, so far it works great. It was that way right back to my Bag Phone. Good Luck I have been through it all, lol !