Moon came up too late as it just cleared the neighbor’s trees a few minutes ago.
So I used Jupiter instead. I was able to get the auto guider and scope in
focus! Yippee! I even got it roughly aligned with the C6 main scope.
I tried doing a two star alignment followed by a polar alignment. I keep
forgetting to hit Enter the second time before I use the arrow keys to center
the alignment star. That’s going to take some getting used to. But I’m a lot
closer to polar alignment now than I was when I started the evening! So that’s
some progress. A few more iterations and I may finally get to “close enough”.
Thanks everyone for your help in getting me headed in the right direction.
Michael McDonald
mikemac@xxxxxxxxxxx
On May 29, 2018, at 9:58 PM, Michael McDonald <mikemac@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[2nd attempt as I ran afoul of the “too many quoted lines - sending your
message to the bit bucket for review” rule.]
I’ll give the Moon a shot tomorrow night.
