Hello how did you go to the first star ? I hope you did not slew to it ; did you manually grasp the scope , centred in your eyepiece , locked the clutches and then sync ? Suresh

Yes : default values , don’t touch them except what is told by the guiding assistant Suresh

I had the same doubt, couple of years back . The answer is : do a good calibration ; run guiding assistant for full 5-7 minutes , accept those settings .( before calibration you must fill the data of

Chris , I have the same scope and reducer . If you use any other item outsourced in the imaging train ( including your filters )between the camera chip and the reducer , I’m pretty sure it doesn’t wor

Chris ; Could you kindly explain why drift increases in RA further south you live ?(I live close to equator ) Suresh

Eric , I’ve understood this way .do the azimuth and altitude the normal way . Now go to zenith and use altitude again( in Phd ) to fine tune Suresh ( correct me if I’m wrong )

Ha ! I put my mount sometimes in my pelican and sometimes in the original cardboard box ; put it in cargo to my destination in Himalayas . I've done it for months . No problem Suresh

Yay !

Just heard from Warren Keller s post that howie has left us . When he spoke to me the other day he mentioned with pride that he is being equated to as the Roland of collimators by his clients Suresh S

Hi Thomas , How old is your keypad ? The weakest link in the key pad is the coiled cable . First try several times , next open the keypad and try cleaning the pins which the cable connects to hc , if

My friend bought a small lithium ion battery for usd 100/- it lasts him 8 hrs incl ccd and mount Suresh

12 inch Newtonian f4 about 45 pounds Suresh

Hi All, Last night the sky cleared at 2am. I switched on the mount and pointed at Antares and pressed goto . Now I entered m17 which is north of Antares but the scope pointed south in the same RA . Th

Hi Friends , Here is a pic of omega centauri with Mach 1 and 12 inch Newtonian working with ASA reducer to f2.8 Suresh ----------

Hi Andrew, Thanks but unfortunately mine does not have holes in front Suresh

Ok I've locked Polaris with RAPAS , I can see Polaris and just one more star that's way too faint in Polemaster to make my next move . Will either try late night or tommorow . I tried various gain and

I'm eager to post results tonight or Tommorow Suresh

Latitude is 13 N but with RAPAS I get within 1 arc minute on most days Thanks Suresh By double sided : you meant the one which sticks both sides ? Right ?

My friend has sent me the pole master to use for the weekend For my Mach 1 . Any idea if I can just stick on front with duct tape ? His mount is eq6 . I do have my own RAPAS Suresh Ps telescope is in

Hi Alan , Yes it's 13 watts at50% power .now that summer has started I have to use ccd . I use one dew heater as well . Thanks Suresh