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Hi, i havnt had a clear night to actualy go out and try to align my skywatcher explorer 130p yet but i have set it up and set the co-ordinates to what i think is right, i have read the manual and online guides, i have found out that my latitude here in Liverpool should be 53 which i have set it to, can anyone please look at the below images of my set up and let me know if anything is incorrect, as i say the latitude is set to roughly just over the 52 degree mark as it seems to go up in marks of 2 and i have set the declination axis to 90, this is to try to align it with polaris when the sky is clear.

(http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/1189/dsc00196a.jpg) (http://img369.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00196a.jpg)

(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5517/dsc00197mtq.jpg) (http://img14.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00197mtq.jpg)

(http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/2826/dsc00198p.jpg) (http://img52.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00198p.jpg)

thanks

James

Hi James, I use an Alt. Az. mount myself, but the way you have set yours up does not look correct the telescope is usually on top. Here is link to a site which should help http://www.themcdonalds.net/~themcdo/richard/index.php?title=Setting_Up_an_Equatorial_Mount (http://www.themcdonalds.net/~themcdo/richard/index.php?title=Setting_Up_an_Equatorial_Mount) hope its of some help. the forecast is clear for tonight so hopefully you will be able to use it. cheers
Brendan