Adi,

Try decreasing your slew speed to 3-5 degrees/sec and see if that helps. I
found it to help quite a bit. It defaults to 8 so make sure you change it
BEFORE you do your 2 star alignment. Also you may want to check the alignment
of the OTA with the fork mount. Look in the archives for info on how to do
that. I found that by tweaking the OTA alignment I reduced my goto error from
1-2 degrees to 30 arc-min and then by reducing the slew speed to 4 that I
further reduced the error to around 5-10 arc-min.

John

> Hi,
> I'm really jealous of all the people getting great Goto accuracy on their
> new scopes! I for one am still struggling. I tried again today with a GMT
> offset of +4 for EDT and put in my location correctly too and the only
> thing that I wasnt extremely accurate about was the time which i suspect
> was plus or minus 5 minutes. I did the two star alignment on Deneb and
> Spica and noticed that even so, it still couldnt center Polaris altho it
> came close. However with time the errors grew larger and larger and I just
> dont understand it. Objects close to the alignment stars are in the FOV if
> I do a GOTO but Objects which are slightly far away from Both alignment
> stars arent even in the FOV and need some adjustment to get them there
> usually in RA. I am using a plain jane 10" scope with the standard
> eyepiece (SP25mm). Please advise. Newbie in distress!
> Thanks,
> Adi
>
>


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