SNGohar Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I retired as a chemical engineer in January 2011 and after seeing a programme on star gazing decided to join the club. I live at Kenton just south of Harrow.My first scope was Mead 102 Refractor on DS goto mount purchased on ebay but mount gave up almost at once and I couldn’t find a new/replacement Meade goto mount. Then I purchased Sky watcher Sky Travel 120 (short tube) with manual Alt-AZ mount. Optics of the short tube Sky travel 120 is worse that Meade 102. I therefore installed Meade 102 on Alt-AZ mount and started using it. I found the mount very flimsy as the mount moved during focussing. Red dot focuser is also difficult to align I have not managed to see any deep sky objects. Recently purchased used LX10 8" SCT with EQ6 synscan mount. Scope is very good and 8 x 50 focuser satisfactory. Regret to advise that I have not yet learned to use EQ6 mount properly. I manually use it to look at moon and Jupiter but can't get to align it so that I can make use of synscan handset.After balancing the scope and aligning it to Polaris using the mount scope with latitude at 51. Before I can use the synscan system, handset requires alignment. I am okay until inputs for latitude, longitude, time date etc. It all goes wrong when the hand set says” Polaris HA xxx" Clock xxx". I don’t know what is meant by this. Need help very badly.I also own Carl Zeiss 7x50 and Nikon Monarch 8x42 bins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Kick Drum Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Hi and welcome to the lounge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker1947 Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Post your problems in the beginners section,there's people here will sort you out, and welcome to SGL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telrad Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Hi SNGohar, welcome to the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Spock Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Hi, welcome to SGL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damnut Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Hi SNGohar,Warm welcome to SGL, it would be great if you could repost your help query in the advice section, the others will be on it in a second!!.Cannot advise as my lx200 is still on original mount.Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn4me Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Hi and welcome to SGL:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOBBY Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Hi SNG...& welcome to the forum....just down the road from you...give a shout if ya still having probs.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Strings Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Hi and welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glowjet Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Hi SNGohar and welcome to SGL, I do not have the EQ6 which is a very nice mount, but there are many members of the forum who do, perhaps another post into the help section could be more rewarding for you as the inputing of data in the correct manor is crucial to the mounts operation John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd8137 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 hi and welcome from me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charon Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Hello SNGohar and welcome to the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosivad Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Hi and welcome. There are some real experts in this forum who will be able to help you sort out your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faulksy Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 hi and welcome as said post in begginers section for advise some one will definatley no how to help you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swamp thing Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Hi there welcome to the forumSent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astro Imp Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 H and welcome to the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizibilder Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Hello SNGohar and welcome to SGL!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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