I assume you are upgrading from another
mount?
I wrote the following post on Cloudy Nights to help people a
bit who are migrating from Celestron (or Meade) mounts to
Astro-Physics. It covers some of the important differences that might
trip up people who are familiar with the other GOTO systems. Not sure if
it will help you or not. I hope it does.
-Christopher Erickson
Observatory
engineer
Summit Kinetics
Tired my new Mach1GTO for the first time last night. Mount was
leveled E/W and balanced per instructions. I used the RASPA right out of
the box to do PA following initial rough polar alignment. I then did a
SYNC to a bright star in the east and I thought I had the scope aligned on the
west side as they say instruct in the KeyPad manual. When I started to
slew, I was able to see objects on my computer screen using a CCD camera in the
east and southeast but nothing in the FoV west and north. I also did
drifting testing and the star low in the east did start to drift after 5
minutes. So, I am thinking I have 2 problems: 1) I did not SYNC correctly
for the GOTOS and/or 2) the RASPA needs to be aligned following drift alignment
due to the slight drifting occurring. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.
