Ik ga deze tip eens proberen:
The idea is to redefine your mount’s park position, using EQMOD to get it absolutely spot-on. This gives you a much better starting point for doing your alignment.
- Connect to the telescope and activate EQMOD in your usual way
- Unpark the scope. Turn off tracking
- In EQMOD, click once on the little button beneath the ASCOM logo (it has a window and a plus-sign). The display changes to the two rings
- The aim now is to re-define your parking place as EXACTLY level and pointing EXACTLY north. Use the N, S, E, W controls, or your game controller, until the number beneath the left-hand ring is 06:00:00 and the number beneath the right-hand ring is 90:00:00. Take the time to get these numbers exact. Your mount is now sitting in the perfect parking place. The remaining steps are to tell EQMOD that this is now its parking place for the mount.
- Do not park the scope.
- Shutdown EQMOD (in SkyTools I use the “disconnect telescope” option to do this)
- Turn off the mount’s power
- Power the mount on again
- Restart EQMOD. It’ll report that the mount is unparked
- Press park (the mount won’t move, and your new, perfectly central position will be recorded as the new park position)
This then gives you the perfect starting place for star alignment, and that seems to make a big difference to how well the alignment works. The first two go-tos I made last night were off-target, as usual, and I had to use the finder to get them on target (as usual). But after registering just two alignment stars, my go-tos became almost impeccable. Registering some more alignment stars in EQMOD was quick (as the go-tos were so close to their targets). I’m now VERY happy with my go-tos landing within just one or two arcminutes of the target every time.”