CGem help required

[Venus_is_my_friend]

Hi all,

I am in need of some help regarding my tracking and keeping alignment.

The other night for the first time I managed to align the mount properly! I gave it some tough tests like slowing between M42 and M31 just to make sure it was spot on and it was!

I then left it on M42 for a good ten minutes and noticed the tracking was off and it had drifted by half a degree from the centre. I pressed enter and it centred it, so at this point the alignment was still spot on, though the tracking wasn't.

I then left it again whilst I went inside to make use of the facilities. When I came out I didn't re-centre M42 but instead went straight to Jupiter, which was just over half a degree off centre so I manually centred it.

With each additional object I slewed to it seemed to get more and more out of alignment. The worst being M36 at the end if the session which was between 2-3 degrees out.

What can I try to get my tracking working properly?

Is there anything I can do about the alignment or is this probably due to the tracking being out?

Thanks for reading,

Neil

[Chris Rowland]

If goto is good but it isn't tracking accurately then the problem is that the scope isn't polar aligned.

There's a polar align option in the HC, press the align button and use the up/downbuttons to find the Align Mount option. The instructions on the HC should help.

Chris

[Venus_is_my_friend]

Thanks Chris will try this!

Do yo think this could explain why the alignment steadily got worst throughout the night?