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Subject: Re: [M]: Did the Magellan Die?
From: Nigel Burge
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Sun Mar 29 04:25:23 1998

At 18:34 28/03/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello all...
>
>An observing buddy has a Meade Starfinder, and bought the Magellan Unit for
>it. We've had several successes with it. However, we've had trouble for the
>last two weeks with the unit. We do a polar alignment, then start it up,
>pick our align stars and get an alignment score of 95 thru 105%. That being
>done, we then proceed to point the scope somewhere else, using its
computer to
>guide us. If we obey the magellan, we wind up pointing the scope to another
>place in the sky!
>
>We couldn't beleive it, we re-started the whole procedure, then tried
pointing
>to a known object, say Rigel, or Antares, the magellan goes screwy again!
>Does anyone nkow what the problem could be?
>
>Help!
>

Try choosing your two alignment stars as being between 25deg and 80deg
apart and close to the celestial equator (ie near 0deg declination).

If their separation exceeds about 85deg, you certainly will get some very
strange results.

The MagII unit is very good but its learning curve is very steep. Not
helped by the very incomplete manual. Take a look at the Mapug archives
under LX50 and MagII for more details.

Best of Luck,

Nigel
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From:- Nigel D.R. Burge - Isle of Skye - Scotland
E-mail address:- nigel.burge@pobox.com
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