jaygpoo

Hi , hope you are well and doing some astronomy. I am out with my gear for the first proper session since the star weekend. I have been playing with the skysafari pro and thought I was ready for go. How wrong can you be. So I need a little help if you can spare me 5 mins. I polar aligned my mount using eqmod and then put the mount in park. I then attached the skyfi and connected. So far so good. Now the skifi shows the scope below the horizon not where it reallly is. When I ask it to go to to a star its Miles out and says the scope is to far away from the intended object. if I follow the instructions for aligning the scope to safari I get no where. Then I find that if I unlock the scope and place the scope on a star. Then align in EP and press align it works. Could you just tell me your method from polar alignment to safari alignment. Other than that its very nice but I need to know that DSO are where the scope is pointing.  Jay

Hi, I am the guy the you showed your gear to in the dark. I have downloaded the new version of sky safari 5pro but it seems a little hard to look at first time. I have adjusted various things like star names and amounts. Removed the milky way and the anything else that the screen does not need but could I trouble you for just a few of the settings that you have settled on. Horizon & sky/ appearance & behavior/ solar system . Hope you had a good weekend and trip home and many thanks for the equipment tour that may costs me as a result but it was fun and eye opening.  Jay