Testing the system

Testing the system

I had two wonderful nights with little to no clouds and managed to:

  • Align my polar scope
  • Polar align manually with my knees in the wet grass
  • Get decent tracking!
  • Give up on polar aligning manually and buy the 10 USD sharpcap pro license
  • Use sharpcap pro to polar align – this is so easy.
  • Align the scope, which was a big hit and miss
  • Making a total mess of connecting sharpcap, stellarium and synscan together to the mount
  • Confusing my scope, laptop and eventually also myself
  • Not collimating the scope resulting in horrible stars on my laptop screen

When I ordered the scope to go to Albireo, I felt some relief when I saw two little diamonds in the sky. Unfortunately those were two stars slightly west of Vulpecula. Still pretty close though.

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