Set your meridian delay 1 hour east, then re-enter the object when the mount hits that point and the mount will flip. Rolando

The thing that is puzzling is that when imaging unguided there is Dec drift, yet when he measured the drift there is no Dec drift in 7 minutes (ignore RA drift for the moment). There is no known mecha

You did drift alignment for 7 minutes with no drift. So theoretically you should be able to attach a camera and get zero drift with the camera, and thus by definition you will get perfectly round star

If you are getting no drift in your imaging scope then you are getting round stars. No drift means round stars. So, below you say you get drift pointing south, then that means you are getting drift. A

With what scope did you have no drift period? Guide scope or imaging scope? Rolando

If you get 7 minutes of no drift then you will get 7 minutes of perfectly round stars. That is the definition of round stars - no drift. Something you are not telling me. Is the no drift only on one a

That always suggest that polar alignment is off. Check drift near the meridian pointing south. You may find that the Dec axis is drifting, which means that the azimuth alignment is off. Of course when

Hi Astronuts, More unguided imaging with the 17" Astrograph on the 1600 Encoder mount: https://www.astrobin.com/full/pmc2n2/0/?nc=Uncarollo Closeup of the stars in the core of M13, taken during good s

I shot this image with the 10" f14.6 Mak to get a closeup of the Hourglass. Trusty old STL11K with narrowband filters. https://www.astrobin.com/full/7qege5/B/?nc=Uncarollo&real=&mod= Rolando

There is no Factory reset because there is nothing to reset. The new user would simply update the time, date and location from his time zone. Other than that, there is nothing else needed. Rolando

We know what the problem is and our software engineer is preparing a solution. Please hang in there. Rolando

There are a boatload of variables, so I cannot even conceive an answer to that. Rolando

I will forward this to our customer service guys. Rolando

Hello Christian, We have several ways to find the mount on our web page. I have posted them below. Try one of the "Find Mount" utilities and see if they work: https://astro-physics.info/tech_support/m

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It takes a while to get used to it. Just like it took a year to begin wearing seatbelts back in 1960. But now it's automatic. I don't even think about seatbelts, they just seem to attach themselves. R

Here is some more information: http://brayebrookobservatory.org/BrayObsWebSite/HOMEPAGE/PageMill_Resources/PUBLICATIONS/RA%20DRIVE%20RATES/RAREFRATE.pdf Note, this covers only the RA drift rate. Dec d

The RA tracking rate can vary anywhere from 35 to 70 arc seconds per hour (0.6 to 1.5 arc sec per minute) between the zenith and +- 3 hours from the zenith. The rate of drift is not linear. Modeling c

Yes, maybe a fine point. I wear one not for my own protection because breathing in doesn't prevent my getting a lung full of critters. My mask is for the protection of other people so that my phlegm a

You can only get tracking without trailing in an area around the zenith, but only if you have the azimuth axis adjusted properly for no drift in Dec and the altitude axis adjusted for no drift in RA (