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Tarja Rabito

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Aug 3, 2024, 6:00:25 PM8/3/24

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Hi all, i got my son a Meade starnavigator 102 for his Xmas, i think its a costco version of the Ds 2080?, i have tried resetting a few times then enetering Edinburgh as home site, but whenever i try to align it it seems to be miles off the stars its supposed to be locating, i am getting to the stage where i reckon its time to give up on it!!!!

It is a audiostar handset that came with the scope, i don't know any stars really, looking at stellarium the most obvious stars at this time seem to be sirius and rigel, i think i can se them in the sjy tonight as it is really clear here, should i try an alignment using them and see how i get on?

I may be wrong here. I am assuming that the handset performs the same alignmnet as the normal Meade Autostar handset. It may be a different name but I cannot see Meade rewriting the alignment software they have had for a number of years. That is the assumption I have made.

Meade scopes do not request you to know a star, the ones that they use tend to be brightish but more relevantly are single ones away from others. Basically you should just have one brightish star visible. That is the one that you centre.

Hello again, i went out last night as it was a mild clear night, i set the scope up just before dark to north and level then when it got dark i had a look at stellarium for obvious stars i then selected easy align and the scope slewed to sirius which i know is in the sth east, when i looked thru the eyepiece it was nowhere to be seen, and the scope seemed to be pointing in the wrong direction ie west??

During the day i had tested the motors and trained the drives but still i cant seem to align the scope, can anyone help me but in plain english for a total newbie, i don't want to be baffled with science etc just some pointers that i can follow easily!!!!

If you have levelled it, pointed it North, selected Easy Align then the scope has slewed to where it believes that Sirus is it hopefully means that it is operating but that the information fed into it is in error. This is amazingly easy to get wrong. Make an assumption and that's it.