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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 , 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, 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
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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
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Hiya
I've attached the settings that I use on my copy of Sky Safari Pro 5. I've not tried this before, so it's a bit of an experiment. You should be able to load the file on your iPad and will do the setting for you. Failing that, try copying the file to iCloud drive. There should be a Sky Safari Pro folder, put it in there and it'll sync with your iPad.
If you can't get it to work, I can always take photos of all the settings post them, I can't do that until friday (I'm a busy bee
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Glad it's working. I love my skyFi, makes finding stuff so much easier than with the handbox alone, or with a program on a laptop that's away from the scope.