The Bath Astronomers are a community of people in and around Bath who are interested in astronomy and space. Some are armchair astronomers enjoying a book and Googling. Some are astrophotographers. Some are observational astronomers with their own telescope(s) and perhaps an observatory.
We have talks every month and try to gather them here on our YT channel for people to view in their own time.
My control panel is on the East side of the telescope. Could they have assembled it backwards? I point the telescope North and level. But when is skews to the brightest star for alignment, it doesn't point anywhere near a bright star. Any suggestions?
I'm amazed that it doesn't at least have a compass built in or on the tripod.. it can't be that much of a cost thing seeing that I had got a small compass in a box of Cracker Jacks..
Are you properly adjusting for Daylight Savings Time, or not... The fact that literally no analemma videos ever even mention how they deal with this issue is irritating to put it mildly.
@@SkyCloudSilence dst isn't much of a necessity in solar calculations, plus most of the world doesn't use dst, unless we're talking about Europe or America and a few others. also btw, the solar analemma is the same for every place on earth, whether that is Antarctica or the equator, so dst, location and time are variables that don't matter whatsoever, but only of course if time is constant.
So I found a fix, once you align the telescope... you can then change the mount type from setup --> Telescope --> mount --> "change alt. az. with the down arrow to polar". It now shows polar when aligning on easy align. I should have known to do this, but you can not mess with the setup options without aligning the scope first... which is odd.
I have a small issue when I align my telescope like you do. I have an ETX 90 ec model and when I go to align on the hand controller, I hit "easy" align mode, which is two-star. During this process, it says it is ETXA on top and says nothing about polar align, it says place telescope in alt. az. home position which tells me it has nothing to do with an equatorial setup. My controller is different, it is the Audiostar 497. This controller should be capable of an eq setup. Anyways I was thinking there is a switch somewhere to tell it to go into eq/polar align instead of alt. az.
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