Hi, I am trying to help a fellow down here in St. George with a telescope problem. I am a meade guy and he has a celestron telescope. We can not get the telescope to align, so it can be used as a goto. We get the telescope set up and pointing north and start the align process. The telescope chooses stars that I have never heard of and points down below the horizon to align. We have put all the proper information into the telescope about where we are time and date etc. Any Ideas? Telescope is: Celestron Schmidt/Cas Mount: Celestron Advanced VX Computerized German Equatorial Mount Mark
Sound to me like it thinks it's alignment stars are in the Southern Hemisphere. Go to celestron's site and look for the manual. I'm sure there is a setting buried in the menu somewhere. Dan -- Sent from my iPhone. Please pardon any mispelings or errors.
On Jun 11, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Mark Shelton via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Hi, I am trying to help a fellow down here in St. George with a telescope problem. I am a meade guy and he has a celestron telescope.
We can not get the telescope to align, so it can be used as a goto. We get the telescope set up and pointing north and start the align process. The telescope chooses stars that I have never heard of and points down below the horizon to align.
We have put all the proper information into the telescope about where we are time and date etc.
Any Ideas?
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Thanks much for all the suggestions. The telescope is now working. Yea Mark Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 11, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> wrote:
Sound to me like it thinks it's alignment stars are in the Southern Hemisphere.
Go to celestron's site and look for the manual. I'm sure there is a setting buried in the menu somewhere.
Dan
-- Sent from my iPhone. Please pardon any mispelings or errors.
On Jun 11, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Mark Shelton via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Hi, I am trying to help a fellow down here in St. George with a telescope problem. I am a meade guy and he has a celestron telescope.
We can not get the telescope to align, so it can be used as a goto. We get the telescope set up and pointing north and start the align process. The telescope chooses stars that I have never heard of and points down below the horizon to align.
We have put all the proper information into the telescope about where we are time and date etc.
Any Ideas?
Telescope is: Celestron Schmidt/Cas Mount: Celestron Advanced VX Computerized German Equatorial Mount Mark _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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So, what was the problem? Some weird setting in the hand controller? Dave On Jun 12, 2014, at 21:48, Mark Shelton via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Thanks much for all the suggestions. The telescope is now working. Yea
Mark
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 11, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> wrote:
Sound to me like it thinks it's alignment stars are in the Southern Hemisphere.
Go to celestron's site and look for the manual. I'm sure there is a setting buried in the menu somewhere.
Dan
-- Sent from my iPhone. Please pardon any mispelings or errors.
On Jun 11, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Mark Shelton via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Hi, I am trying to help a fellow down here in St. George with a telescope problem. I am a meade guy and he has a celestron telescope.
We can not get the telescope to align, so it can be used as a goto. We get the telescope set up and pointing north and start the align process. The telescope chooses stars that I have never heard of and points down below the horizon to align.
We have put all the proper information into the telescope about where we are time and date etc.
Any Ideas?
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Stupid question. Does the scope have a north/south switch? Does it have a north/south setting in the hand controller? If I hit the north/south switch and, inadvertently, switch it to south, I get the same behavior with my LX200. The stars are southern stars in the align setup and the scope points below the horizon. See if it has a north/south switch somewhere. Dave Sent from my iPad
On Jun 11, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Mark Shelton via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Hi, I am trying to help a fellow down here in St. George with a telescope problem. I am a meade guy and he has a celestron telescope.
We can not get the telescope to align, so it can be used as a goto. We get the telescope set up and pointing north and start the align process. The telescope chooses stars that I have never heard of and points down below the horizon to align.
We have put all the proper information into the telescope about where we are time and date etc.
Any Ideas?
Telescope is: Celestron Schmidt/Cas Mount: Celestron Advanced VX Computerized German Equatorial Mount Mark _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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Make sure the stars he's aligning with are actually the ones the telescope thinks they are. Look the names up on the Internet if not sure. Also make sure the time is DST, not standard time. That alone will change things by 15 degrees. Use Polaris as one of the alignment stars, then it knows which hemisphere it's in. My 2 Celestron GoTo mounts do not have N/S switches.
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