Aligning my scope

[NightSky_Wanderer]

Hi

So i tried to do a 2 star alignment tonight, I managed to do the first star fine but when it was slewing to the second star it went in completly the wrong direction and settled on a tree.

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks

Adam

[jimbo747]

Did you enter date mm/dd/yy? Otherwise gps location entered wrong, think we've all done that at some point!

[jimbo747]

Also are you solely using batteries, i have a powerpack on my 127 but apparently when batteries start to run down the scope can do bizarre things.

[NightSky_Wanderer]

Im pretty sure I am entering the date and location correctly and I got a power pack (I cant be doing with fiddling with batteries).

Does it have to be in a starting position before beginning?

[RichM63]

Did you enter your coordinates correctly Norfolk (with an L) would be E, or + 1.123.... (I have made that mistake)

[NightSky_Wanderer]

I put in the location I was at. Which was my home coordinates.

[ronin]

If it went to the first then it sounds as if you had a known start position initially, or blind luck, as it was the second I suspect that power is the problem.

The power tank is in reality a small lead acid battery that can easily get itself "damaged" in use. So it stops delivering the voltage that you expect and that the scope needs.

Although batteries are poor people know they are poor but tend to assume that a power tank is the answer to everything.

If you have a meter check the delivered voltage.

Concerning data, if you had the date format wrong then you entered a month of 15 which I would assume they range check the input value so would have ignored you or squeeked.

Read back the data that it has internally if you can, mainly to check it is correct.

Just check that Longitude is something like +1.3 or 1.3 E, should appear as 001 deg  nn minutes (count the leading 0's)

Also check the Timezone, should be UTC or UTC 0 (or similar format).

[NightSky_Wanderer]

Thanks for your help so far.

If it went to the first then it sounds as if you had a known start position initially, or blind luck, as it was the second I suspect that power is the problem.

I manually slewed it to the 1st star the second went in the complete opposite direction.