Collyer911 Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 i cant get my to align properly tonight,i,m convinced that i,m putting my cordinates into the handset incorrectly,on google earth my location is52 31 56 n0 59 31 wi put these in and locate arcturus which i do then the scope slews to vega but is way off i allign useing controller it tells me align succesful but when i then go to an object its way off.i,m using skywatcher synscan dobhelp please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel-K Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 are you putting the star in the middle of the eypiece before pressing enter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collyer911 Posted August 9, 2011 Author Share Posted August 9, 2011 yep the first star i,m centering with the handset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Random thought, wasn't there some thing about putting a date in American format rather than English?I have no idea if this is relevant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesM Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 With regards to the other data, are you using the correct time, the American input of date Month Day and Year? Are you centering the star in the eye piece rather than the finder scope? Power supply, what are you using as your power supply as any fault here can make any scope do funny things.Lastly I guess you have tried the alignment several times - does it always show the same result i.e does the mount slew in the same wrong direction by the same amount?That will keep you busy!JamesEdit Sorry Kh3ldar you got there before me as I took too long typing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel-K Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 are you doing 3-star alignment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collyer911 Posted August 9, 2011 Author Share Posted August 9, 2011 cheers guysfeel really stupid !!it was the day,date the wrong way round!thanks for thatalthough after messing about for ages the clouds are comming in now!thanks andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 With regards to the other data, are you using the correct time, the American input of date Month Day and Year? Are you centering the star in the eye piece rather than the finder scope? Power supply, what are you using as your power supply as any fault here can make any scope do funny things.Lastly I guess you have tried the alignment several times - does it always show the same result i.e does the mount slew in the same wrong direction by the same amount?That will keep you busy!JamesEdit Sorry Kh3ldar you got there before me as I took too long typing.It's all good cheers guysfeel really stupid !!it was the day,date the wrong way round!thanks for thatalthough after messing about for ages the clouds are comming in now!thanks andyAt least it's sorted and you won't do that again It's not that stupid though, blooming Americans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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