cjdawson
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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
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Hi Jay. That sounds really strange to me. I might hazard one guess. In my SkySafari settings, I have it update my Autostar location and date and time. Bascially when I turn on the scope, I set to the home position, then turn on the scope. Cancel the initial alignment (as this asks for the date and time). Next I connect SkySafari which sets both the date&time and the location. After this is done, I do a normal alignment with the scope. This then applies the alignment correction to the autostar and everything sync's up properly.
I don't really do anything special to make it other than making sure that SkySafari supplies the location date and time. I'm sure that I could even do that manually as well and it would still work, but I'm lazy and want to type in at little as possible. ;-) Just a silly thought, here... my SkyFi connects to my hand controller, I've just looked up what EQMOD is and isn't that a hand controller replacement? Why not have SkySafari connect to EQMOD as though it's a hand controller? I have no idea how to do this, but when it's controlling the scope, all that mine is doing is communicating with the handbox. You connect SkySafari to your EQMOD in the same way that you would with programs like Stellarium or Starry Night Pro.
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Hi and thanks for your time and energy in replying to me. I have it sorted. I setup and polar align. Then star align and at that point I connect to skyfi and safari. The software is now located on my last star and the rest is fun. I have an NEQ6 pro mount. DO you have the same? I should remember but it was dark. The safari software will only star align on a few mount setups and the NEQ6 is not one of them. Ah I have just remembered that you have that autostar setup that I could not see with my eyesight. Thanks and keep in touch. Will be going to Kelling Heath next week on friday night so hope the clouds have a holiday. Jay
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