Alignment Help.....please.....

[EdF_uk]

Hi everyone,

I need some help with polar and star alignment.

I think I'm aligning the mount to polaris correctly. I have a HEQ5 syntrek mount with EQMOD. I've used the tutorial on the EQMOD youtube site to align the scope which seems to work OK. I do the alignmnet with the scope and counter weights off but my question is:

When the polar alignment is complete what do I do with the dec axis? In what orientation do I put the scope onto the mount?

Hope someone can enlighten me.

Cheers

Ed

[Neil McRae]

I believe you put it back to Park in Home Position

[MikeP]

The normal start position is with the weights down and the OTA pointing at Polaris (celestial pole really) - so Dec pointing north.

Mike

[EdF_uk]

Thanks guys.

I sorted it out last night and managed to properly align to Polaris and also do a 3 star alignment with stellurium and eqmod.

Thanks

Ed