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« on: 12-Mar-2010 15:09:11 GMT »

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.







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« Reply #1 on: 12-Mar-2010 16:27:18 GMT »

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 hope its of some help. the forecast is clear for tonight so hopefully you will be able to use it. cheers
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