At 10:29 PM 4/14/98 -0400, you wrote:


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>- Then I took control of the scope with the laptop running megastar, pointed
>and selected on Regulus and slewed, the alignment was off. Regulus was close
>but not in the eyepeice.
>> Jon B

I have had the same problem using Guide 6. One thing that helped was to set
the epoch to the date of observation. What I would like to do is set up
with the keypad outside and then take it inside where I could make slight
corrections with the guiding keys on the keypad. But this means hotpluging
the keypad. I read Paul Goelz' comments about parking the telescope in land
mode then going back to alt-azi mode and having the telescope remember its
pointing accuracy. I am wondering if one did the alignment then parked the
telescope at alt-azi 0,0 (due south and on the horizon) then turned off the
power, took the keypad inside and plugged it back in through a longer cable
then turned the power back on. Then use the computer to do the alignment
again with the CCD camera. Hope this makes some sense.

Bob Elliott

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