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SkyWatcher SynScan GOTO - what the Manual doesn't tell you!
in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
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Thankyou. I have just had a frustrating time failing to get my new goto working. I'm happy I got the date, latitude etc correct. I manually slewed to Jupiter, but then when it came to find the first star the scope went off in a crazy direction, far from the stars I was asking it to go to. I tried it several times with different stars and with 2 stars rather than Jupiter but it did the same each time.
I am using rechargable batteries - could this really have such an effect? Also I didn't use a spirit level - again is this vital?
I'm a bit perturbed that I'm going to have to go through this each time I use the scope! I thought if I aligned it once that was all that was needed.
At least I got to see Jupiter