Hi guys
I’d like to ask if someone could ever know the answer to my question:
I’ve recently purchased a new skyliner flextube with an aperture of 203 mm (by the brand Sky-Watcher).
Every time I use it, since it’s motorised, I have to re-align the synscan go to system.
Is there maybe any way to keep the alignment in memory? I’ve heard of a “park to home position” feature, I don’t know how to use it though, and if it would be effectively useful to me.
Thanks a lot in advance for your kind support
Chris
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In particular, I wanted to specify the fact that every single time I end a session, I put my telescope back in my house, so I move it from its position and I turn the synscan off, of course.
Thanks
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That's something you can only do if the mount is equatorial and perfectly polar aligned, and even then you'd be better off platesolving vs handbox aligning. You'll need a lot more equipment to do that, theres no go-around unfortunately.
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Parking the scope in a home position really won't help you if you then pick t up and take it inside. Even if you didn't I expect that the only advantage would be that everything is in the right position to do the alignment the next night. I could be wrong but I don't think the controller keeps an internal sidereal clock running so that it remembers the last alignment.
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Thank you all so much, never mind, I’ll try to find a permanent spot to place it.
Have a nice one
Chris
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The park feature you are looking for is called Hibernate. You should choose hibernate at home. This then tells you that it has saved your settings, and you can switch the mount off. When you switch the mount and the app back on it will use your PC or phone clock to know what time it is, and adjust accordingly. You should then be able to do a GOTO to slew to a new object without redoing the alignment.To precisely center the object you will either need to manually center the object, and then click the star in the control panel OR use platesolve and recenter with Sharpcap or similar software. That all said, you cannot move your mount after hibernating. BUT - if you only want to approximately slew to the correct position. You might be able get away with marking position of the tripod feet on the ground before you pack up. This is obviously not ideal - but for a rough approximation, might save you some time. This is all based on my experience with a SW 14 GOTODobson alt/az mount, a SW HEQ5 and a SW GTi SA eq mount - all using the Synscan App for Windows.
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Oh thank you! This is working, I was right trying this 2 hours ago!
my best regards
Chris
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