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LX200 12" GPS alignment problem
I don't suppose anyone out there has come across this issue have they? I
follow the instructions implicitly and once the alignment is complete (any option - 1 star, 2 stars, etc) and I choose go-to for an object such as one of the obvious planets so I know I've got the object correct (!) it points somewhere close (same area of the sky...just about) but not in the same field of view through the scope. The GPS location is set correctly and if I use manual alignment with known stars it is still wrong. Sometimes (not always), even the tracking/slew rate seems to be incorrect, and as I'm all geared up for astrophotography that kind if spells failure from the start. Anybody got any ideas???? Any at all???!!! :-) Through my LPI I can get a decent image of Jupiter say, but it jumps a lot which I guess will make stacking the images pretty near impossible, or is there something with image processing software I can use to avoid this. I want to by the new Deep Space Imager but with longer exposures these problems will make my purchase worthless! |
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