EQMOD and stellarium

[BigBlueOne]

Hi Everyone,

As the weather is well pants here in shooters hill Im star hopping in my livingroom, going from my park position Im slewing to capella

no worries, but its off a wee bit looking at stellarium.

My question is once I,ve centred capella and repeated this on

2 more stars then returned to park would this bring things into line

if I repeated my first step on capella.

Hopefully I,ve made sense BigBlueOne

[Neil McRae]

Big Blue

If you have "synced" on capella then go to park then back to capella it should be aligned.

Neil

[BigBlueOne]

Hi Neil,

So in a way I,ve got to train stellarium, only Im expecting it to be spot on or there abouts given that my ncp if not on the money,

so with it being so far out its thrown me.

Thanks BigBlueOne.

[studio1one]

ctrl+3 is the synch command in stellarium.

[BigBlueOne]

Thankyou Studio1one.

BigBlueOne.

[Neil McRae]

Hi Big Blue

Yes basicly to the best of my limited knowledge when you put in your lat and lon into stellarium and polar align you have given the database a "rough" idea of where to point. Once you do alignment on actual targets ( the more stars the better. In some cases I input 12 sync points before observing) you are modifying the inbuilt database which makes slewing to your next target more accurate. If you are oserving for an hour or so say in a Westerly direction and then want to observe someting in the East it is a good idea to do more Syncs (alignments ) on stars in that quadrant.

Hope this makes sense.

Neil

[BigBlueOne]

Thankyou Neil,

What tripped me up really was how much closer the handset

got to the selected star than stellarium, I now understand that

its partly a training exercise for both programs.

Thnakyou again Neil. BigBlueOne

[BigBlueOne]

Update to problem,

Of course there was no problem at all it was down to human

cockup a very large cockup.

What this twonk had not done was to sync in stellarium after

unparking in eqmod, then slew away to your hearts content.

Hopefully this may help someone in the future.

Thankyou BigBlueOne.