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Hi. I’m sorry to admit that misery enjoys company. I cannot believe that I made this mistake too. Would you please let me know where you ordered your boards from. I don’t have the wherewithal to fault find at the moment but I will keep the old boards and fix it sometime. Hopefully to give it to some poor soul who makes the same mistake. Thanks Shaun

I had exactly the same. I purchased from telescopes.net, they arranged with Celestron and sent me a new prism. It took long though.

Hi, Thanks for your response. I eventually decided to put the purchase on hold. I will continue using my 8” EdgeHD for now and at a later stage buy a 14” EdgeHD.

Will be semi permanent, taken down in the rainy season.

A Meade LX200 14" SCT has become available on the used market near me. I am considering the purchase but have a question that I am hoping to get answered here. My main area of interest is imaging Planetary Nebula and Galaxies, would this setup be any good for it? TIA for any input and advice

This is an interesting wedge. Lucas made my wedge midway between the Southern most and Northern most latitudes that I normally travel in. I may ask him to make one of these adjustable wedges for me. He had to move my telescope back from the centre of the tripod as I live at 33 deg S so my setup is really close to vertical. This move of the centre of gravity has made the whole setup more stable. This is a Facebook page for Mesu owners. https://www.facebook.com/groups/220611292974183 Cheers Shaun

Hi, that’s good to know. I’m just so envious of all these flat graphs with a 2” scale and I have to resort to 8” scale 🤣😂😂 There’s is a Facebook group for Mesu owners. https://www.facebook.com/groups/220611292974183 Cheers

Wow, that’s really amazing. I’m just getting started and still getting to grips with Scitech. I’ve achieved Polar Alignment of 3 arc minutes. With a Esprit 100 refractor and a 50mm Orion guidescope with Starshoot Autoguide camera I’m at double your guiding resolution. I think that PA is playing a part in this but I’m also of the opinion that the Orion guidescope isn’t rigid enough in the mount ring as it has 2 screws to adjust the guide to main scope alignment and a third spring loaded floating pin. I suspect that this is introducing flexure into the system as I get unexpected blips in my guiding every few samples.

That didn’t work for me but I now have a new message, Not Initialised. So I have something to work with now. Thanks Shaun

Thanks will be trying that right now.

Looking great. Where did you source those black counterweights from?

Hi Mike, Did you get this resolved, if so would you mind sharing what fixed it? I just fired up my new Mesu and having the exact same problem. I’m in the Southern Hemisphere for what it’s worth. Thanks shaun

I’m about to buy this camera so doing some research. Are you happy with the QHY294M and were your initial problems due to lack of computer power? Thanks Shaun

My mount has finally arrived. I have assembled it now for the software setup. I travel for the holiday from tomorrow so with only be able to set up in the new year. In the meantime I am asking around to do setup as I have zero experience with SciTech and it does look a little daunting.

After what felt like a decade my Mesu e200 was finally delivered. It is such a beautiful piece of machinery, no frills just pure functionality. I had the counter weights manufactured locally and completed the mechanical assembly, pretty straight forward. Thanks to @Jonk, https://stargazerslounge.com/profile/37161-jonk/ for providing me with the dimensions for a 16,5kg counterweight in stainless steel. I downloaded and installed SciTech.exe plus the other bits of software to make it work. The only thing I’m still uncertain about is Carte du Ciel. I’m used to Stallerium for my Skywatcher and Celestron PWI, which I love. I guess I’ll just have to get used to CDC. I need some assistance and would appreciate help. My mount is not going to have the luxury of a permanent pier, I have to move it off the balcony every time I’ve finished my session. I have a very limited view of the South (I’m in South Africa) and no view of the SCP. Despite this I can polar align to a high degree of accuracy with the Synscan routine embedded in the SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro hand controller. Having had a cursory glance at the help menu in the SciTech Polar Alignment tab and it appears that I will need to have a view of the Celestial Pole. Does anyone have advice please? Thanks Shaun

I dream of this level of guiding, it’s superb. I’d like to see more detailed pics of your side by side configuration if you ever find the time. Well done on your installation. I was wondering about this very issue, once I made a rough model by holding a batinov mask at an angle and rotating it, it made perfect sense to me. I think it’s wonderfully simplistic and will ensure rigidity. I plan to use mine for semi portable use on a tripod as I don’t have an observatory. I would move my setup when there’s inclement weather so I would have to setup at least a few times a year. I’m thinking I’m going to need knurled nuts so I can turn it by hand instead of fiddling with spanners to do this task repeatedly. I actually emailed him this morning to ask this very question. I feel foolish now that I found this thread.

Thanks, very useful information. I also just noticed that there is a big difference on the pier attachment. I am puzzled by the Azimuth adjustment. Do you know how fine adjustments to the Azimuth is done,?

@Xsubmariner I love your mount and thanks for sharing this. I hit the BUY button today and ordered my Mesu e200. I am reading up and checking out the mout to work out how Lucas saved all the weight and it obviously comes from the pier attachment arrangement. I understand how one does the Lat adjustments by adjusting the bolts but I would like to know how do you fine adjust the Azimuth. I cannot see any way to adjust the Az. I ordered the tripod as I need to move my setup occasionally so easy fuss free adjustments are important for me.

What are the dimensions to give you 16kg

I’m about to order but was told that there’s a 10 week lead time. I don’t know how I’m going to contain myself once I hit the BUY button

Hi Gary, I realise this is very old but I’m having exactly the same problem with my Star Sense for SkyWatcher. Did you resolve the issue or have you abandoned it? Thanks Shaun