Please help me with allignment

[jason32]

Guyz,

I got my explorer 130mm without motor. Anwyay, i dont know how to allign it to see saturn or any stars.

Can someone please help? the manual is useless.

My questions:

1. Should the weight be pointing straight down or slightly with angle?

Please help

[Cornelius Varley]

This is a similar thread http://stargazerslounge.com/showthread.php?t=187496. The last post (#10) contains a link to a video showing how to slew an equatorial mount around the sky.

Peter