Help with Nexstar 5SE set up.

[Rob66]

I realise I might be doing something completely stupid, but on setting up this scope, when I should be inputting the co-ordinates for where we live (Gillingham,Dorset)

The numbers do not correspond to where it says to enter them, I have too many digits ?

Any help would be very welcome.

[Dark Lawton]

lol am just about to set mine up now haha

[Cornelius Varley]

18 minutes ago, Rob66 said:

I realise I might be doing something completely stupid, but on setting up this scope, when I should be inputting the co-ordinates for where we live (Gillingham,Dorset)

The numbers do not correspond to where it says to enter them, I have too many digits ?

Any help would be very welcome.

What numbers are you trying to input?

[Rob66]

Longitude -2.277885

Latitude 51.036731

[Dark Lawton]

I thought in the instutions it says set time/date and the nearest city to you not numbers

[Rob66]

I've no options to input a city ? just the coordinates 

[Dark Lawton]

doesn't say anything like that in my instruction tho I will tell you soon not got that far on mine yet

 

[Rob66]

Ok thanks

[Dark Lawton]

yeah I just set mine up and it came up with citys

 

[Rob66]

Can you run me through the steps you took to where the city choices are please ?

[Chris]

If your city is on the list you can select it and job done. If not you need to enter lat and long in degrees minutes and seconds of arc. If too many zeros just type001 for 1degree

[Rob66]

I can't even find where you go to to enter your city ?

[2STAR]

1 hour ago, Rob66 said:

Longitude -2.277885

Latitude 51.036731

It doesn't have to be so precise, input 002 27 W (or -2.27)     &    51 03 N

That should work ok, make sure you enter the date US style  mm-dd-yy and check your time is correct within a couple of minutes.

[2STAR]

1 hour ago, Dark Lawton said:

I thought in the instutions it says set time/date and the nearest city to you not numbers

Doesn't make any difference which you use nearest City or co-ordinates will get you on track.

[Dark Lawton]

I got a question regarding set do you set it to universal time since there no GMT option?

[Chris]

Go to two star align, press enter, you'll see the words custom site appear, press arrow up button which also has the word scroll down written on it, press enter, use arrow keys to scroll to Europe, press enter, scroll to city. Hope that helps

[Chris]

6 minutes ago, Dark Lawton said:

I got a question regarding set do you set it to universal time since there no GMT option?

I set mine to universal 

[Rob66]

Thanks, I'll try it that way 

[Cornelius Varley]

12 hours ago, Rob66 said:

Longitude -2.277885

Latitude 51.036731

The decimal coordinates convert to mapping units (degrees, minutes, seconds) should be entered into the handset as 002 16 40 W, 51 02 12 N

[cloudsweeper]

Yes - enter longitude as DDD MM SS, and latitude as DD MM SS.  The handset remembers these.  Once entered, you can check/amend the figures by pressing Align then Back, after switching on.

Rather than selecting the coords for a given place, just use a tablet app to get the exact coords for where you are, and use them.

Doug.

 

[2STAR]

19 hours ago, Dark Lawton said:

I got a question regarding set do you set it to universal time since there no GMT option?

Universal is ok

[Dark Lawton]

19 hours ago, Chris Lock said:

19 minutes ago, 2STAR said:

Universal is ok

Go to two star align, press enter, you'll see the words custom site appear, press arrow up button which also has the word scroll down written on it, press enter, use arrow keys to scroll to Europe, press enter, scroll to city. Hope that helps

is it set to daylight saving still since its American universal time

[Chris]

1 hour ago, Dark Lawton said:

is it set to daylight saving still since its American universal time

I input no (but this is a guess). when I select no daytime saving it seems to still hit the targets with a 32mm eyepiece. 

[Dark Lawton]

50 minutes ago, Chris Lock said:

I input no (but this is a guess). when I select no daytime saving it seems to still hit the targets with a 32mm eyepiece. 

i will have to try both daylight saving and normal time when weather gets better

[Dark Lawton]

On ‎26‎/‎08‎/‎2016 at 20:38, Rob66 said:

I realise I might be doing something completely stupid, but on setting up this scope, when I should be inputting the co-ordinates for where we live (Gillingham,Dorset)

The numbers do not correspond to where it says to enter them, I have too many digits ?

Any help would be very welcome.

Hi and sorry for the delay in this but your entering it in decimal points not in mins and seconds formats for lon and lat if you have a smart phone download and app called longitude it will give you ya location in the correct format there are a few other great gps long lat out there too so the you choose but some ya have to set to seconds in the setting off the app to display in the correct format you need hope this helps as you will get a better location from entering this than your closest city also theres this vis to watch