Hi all, I have done the classical drift method many times. The biggest disadvantage is, the more you are coming to the pole, the longer you have to wait for a "reaction" - means the longer takes it

Hey guys, happy new year! I have a mesu 200. Before the holidays I took the refractor off he mount in order to upgrade the optical train(new focuser, spacers etc). I have marked the position of the ra

Sounds good, thank you. Alvaro On January 3, 2020, at 20:56, Don W <westergren@...> wrote: Hi Alvaro, The drift method is to watch a star South for Azimuth and East or West for Altitude. Generally

Hi Alvaro, The drift method is to watch a star South for Azimuth and East or West for Altitude. Generally the star should be around 20° above the horizon. Atmospheric refraction is active up to

Hi All, Thanks for the prompt reply and there is a lot of reading from the things you have posted. A couple of things: 1) there is a tree between the telescope and polaris. so SharpCapPro is out,

Hi all, you are right it is necessary having view to the North and a wide enough FOV. Mine is ~40x27 and it works with that without problem. Best regards, rfa Reinhold Fr. AUER Dipl. Ing.

You can only use the Sharpcap PA method IF you can see Polaris and if you have a wide enough field so that you can see all around Polaris. That's why PHD is a much better method to use and ALMOST as

Reinhold, you nailed it. I started using SharpCapPro just for the polar alignment feature and found I liked it for some planetary as well. The polar align is the most precise and simple to use I have

I have a mount that has a built in GPS. Typically there is a difference of between 1/4 and 1 full second between the GPS and the internet based time server. Whether that matters to you or not depends

Hi Alvaro, the best software for polar alignment is SharpCapPro. The licence costs 10 British pounds per year and is worth every penny. One feature of this software is guided polar alignment.

Hi Alvaro, You can use PHD2 to check drift alignment by calibrating PHD2 for guiding, then turn off the guiding commands. In PHD2 you can turn off guiding commands by setting the Aggressiveness to

Hi Ned, A time server can help a lot if your PC Clock is not accurate. The clocks in the SiTech controllers are very accurate - if the PC clock wanders then tracking will be off. You can check this

Hi Drew, mono or color? I'm interested if nobody else has snagged it. Josh

Hey guys........ I have an old ST2000 free to a good home. It worked fine last time I fired it up ( many years ago ). Drew in sunny FLA

I will keep an eye on you, have the feeling I'm about to go back to school as you breathe life back into the observatory. Billy Ray marsobservatory.com marsfound.org

Thanks for the replies guys. You are saving me tons of time. Thankfully the data in the ssd drive is intact so I won't need to figure out the config parms again. It's been so long... Billy That's

Hello, I am already polar aligned ( including drift alignment ) in my pier, and I am about to go through the motions of drift alignment to re-tweak my alignment using PHD2. Somewhere I read that to

Wow! does this bring back a lot of really great memories, that is a 245 cookbook water cooled rig? Right. my rig then was still a crystal clocked synchronous drive with a joystick. My 245 used a 5

Wow! It looks like a time-capsule. Dusty but everything still works? Richard On 1/2/2020 5:01 PM, James Roe wrote:

Works great. The latest installer is here: http://siderealtechnology.com/SiTechSetup095A.exe Dan