Coastliner

For very rough and simple tracking I point the mount North-ish, slew to where I want to be then set the tracking rate to sidereal. Yes, you still have to make regular adjustments, but it's fine for a quick observe.

I haven't tried alignment yet, but am I right in thinking that for, say, a two-star alignment the handset chooses the pair? If so, would it be useful to have a list of pairings as well as lists of the stars? That way we could do some preparation and see what pairs are likely to be visible before we venture out. Many thanks for all the work guys, I now have many pages of laminations! Neil.

My first scope, two years ago, was my Celestron 4SE, (altaz) and I have to say the alignment was extremely easy. I have just bought a Synscan mount and have definitely taken a step backwards as far as alignment is concerned. With the Celestron you level the mount, give it the time/date and lat/long. Then, for planets, choose solar system align, point it at a planet, hit enter, done. For other stuff, choose three star align, point to any three naked-eye stars (you don't need to know what they are called), done. Simples.

Fantabulous - that worked. It was trying to save the image to a non-existant folder. I think I confused it when I updated from 332 to 334 the wrong way, instead of just replacing the .exe file with the latest version I was just running the latest .exe. Many thanks, Neil.

Hi All, My DSS has stopped producing a final image. I select my lights and darks, DSS goes through all the usual motions (registering, stacking, computing the final image etc.) but it does not create the usual autosave.tiff file. I have uninstalled/reinstalled DSS, tried different picture files - there is no sign of it building up the image as the usual mosaic. I click on the Copy Image to Clipboard and it tells me there is no image to copy. Any ideas, anyone? Ta, Neil.