Scope & mount in Harmony :)

[beamish]

Skies cleared last night around 10:30 so put out a lean "set up" -battery pack, scope and H/set on the HEQ5Pro ( pier)

The whole point was to check out the Cape's collimation again, following on from reading some very extensive threads in which Jason Khadder ("Jason D") discusses how to collimate/improve collimation etc..FANTASTIC !

Anyhow, I used the H/set as I wasn't planning on doing any imaging and simply needed a star. Inputted the data on the V2 Synta H/set, opted for 1x Star align from home -Alkaid . Bloo%y He(( !!! a gnats hair away from the X-hairs !!

Then onto the main course- checking collimation

Bang on !!!! No tweaking (there's a first !!!). The only job was to then check the distance of the image plane, agh

I'd inadvertently moved the primary up the tube a tad- However, with the primary collimation hex-socket screws replaced with "Karlo's Knobs", the whole process took just a minute or two in the dark !! FAB !!

Well that's was it what now ?? - so I went on "Tour" with Synscan. Never done that before I think and bearing in mind I'd only done a 1x Star alignment- What I was blown away by was the accuracy of the Synta mount, just astounding !! From one side of the pier to the other and then back again, Northwards- Southern views and always bang on !!!

The biggest thrill before I Parked up was to GOTO Bode's and the Cigar, and wow, there in the middle of the FOV there they were !

Well Done Synta- love this mount !!

Shame Saturn's dropped out of view tho Jupiter to look fwd to .

Sorry for rambling on but I went to bed with a smile instead of frustrations, trying to figure out where it all went wrong etc....

[jgs001]

Nice one Karlo, it's great when a plan comes together ...

[TheThing]

Is Harmony in Scotland?

Sounds like it all came together really well. Satisfying when that hapens, isn't it?

Congrats.

[beamish]

Great !!

and a relief, collimating the Cape isn't quite as simple as a straight forward Newt that's for sure- I shan't bore you cos it's a real War 'n' Peace of a story !

[Jason D]

The whole point was to check out the Cape's collimation again, following on from reading some very extensive threads in which Jason Khadder ("Jason D") discusses how to collimate/improve collimation etc..FANTASTIC!

I was looking for threads pertaining to collimation and ran into this thread.

Thanks, Karlo

Glad to help

Jason

[beamish]

No, Thank You !!