>Still having trouble with my 10"LX200's slewing to Polaris being off
>by 5-10
>degrees, despite multiple iterations and corrections. Level, date,
>time,
>lat/longitude all doublechecked (on astropier with Meade superwedge).
>
>Declination circle reads 84-85 degrees (instead of 90) when slewing to
>
>Polaris. Slewing to objects (eg, Jupiter) also off by similar amount
>in same
>direction (west). Could the declination gear/drive be off? Is there
>a way
>to correct this without shipping back to Meade? If this is the case,
>pointing will be off even if I do a precise drift alignment, correct?
>Any
>ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
>Herb Reiher
>
First and foremost, Polaris is not at 90 degrees and planets depends on
the LX clock so it does not have the accurcies of the Star/neb. data
base. I need more information such as a real alignment such as dec.
drift. How long can you keep a star aligned in dec only ???? This will
indicate a good alignment. What version of LX do you have ??? When you
go to a planet do you synch on it ???? Have you followed the Method in
the manual ???? Tried other alignment stars besides the first star the
LX gives you ???? If you fudge the scope west and synch is it still the
same amount of westernly off-set ????

ric

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