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Subject: Re: LX-200 Super Wedge Polar Alignment Blues -Reply
From: Ralph Pass
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Tue Aug 22 05:53:57 1995

The proof of the pudding is in both the tracking and the finding. If you can track, then the finding should be close enough.

The purpose of the posts on db accuracy and alignment is to get alignment so that you are tracking (and hence finding) things correctly.

The accuracy of GOTO is taken as an indication of alignment accuracy OR ALIGNMENT ACCURACY possibility.

I have seen 'alignments' were the two stars are perfect (Polaris plus the other) but for objects off the 'great circle' between those two, the errors were HUGE.

You procedure of 26mm down to 6.4 seems reasonable BUT I suggest checking it with a star as far from Polaris and the selected star as possible.

Ralph Pass rppass@tasc.com