Setting up EQ6-R with EQMOD and Stellarium

[DocE]

Newbie here.

Trying to setup EQ6-R-PHD2-APT-Stellarium.  ASI 120MM guider, ASI183MC Pro, Nikon 200mm lens.  Indoors during daylight.  Have gotten as far as being able to skew mount to objects in Stellarium after much trial and error, many videos.

Simple question is:

When roughly polar aligned what should the EQMOD settings window show?  I am seeing:

LST my local time

RA depends on where green ring is indexed.  My RA is 122/15=8, correct?  I have rotated mount East to 90 degrees and leveled.  Not sure what hour on the green ring (using outer scale for northern hemisphere) should be aligned with the index mark on the mount (mark is on the left side of the mount at 270 degrees with the mount in home position).  Seems it should be indexed at ~8 hours. 

Azimuth ~0 consistent with pointing mount to true north.

Elevation ~my latitude.

Declination 90 degrees ( 90 degrees north of the celestial equator)

I am trying to practice with Stellarium GoTo feature during the day, setting the Stellarium time to 22:00 hours to practice on my nighttime sky.  Should the Mount time also be set to this time in EQMOD?  Stellarium is setup to use Stellarium coordinates rather mount coordinates.

THANKS

[barbulo]

I always park the mount after each session. Doing so, and starting pointing the scope to the NCP makes things easier: PA -> unpark -> track (sideral rate) -> slew.

After using Stellarium to slew the mount to a certain target, you might like to take an image, plate solve (Point Craft in APT) and let the software put it in the center of you FOV. Plate solving is a game changer.

[malc-c]

10 hours ago, DocE said:

Newbie here.

I am trying to practice with Stellarium GoTo feature during the day, setting the Stellarium time to 22:00 hours to practice on my nighttime sky.  Should the Mount time also be set to this time in EQMOD?  Stellarium is setup to use Stellarium coordinates rather mount coordinates.

THANKS

I believe EQMOD takes the time from the PC. 

Most planetarium programs allow you to do a "what the sky looks like 10,000 years ago" but when used for positioning a scope it will be a real time event.  If testing in the day, leave the covers on and use the sun as a target to see if the scope points to the right location, and then fine tune at night on a bright star.