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FLNightSky
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Update: a better outcome this evening. The alignment stars were just out of the EP, but easily findable. After alignment, the GOTOs were better; the moon was right on, hard to miss, Polaris was again slightly out of the field. Maybe I need to use a reticle EP for alignment.
I also noticed that when I switched to my binoviewers, while observing Polaris, the star seemed to migrate down in the FOV and stay there, even if I tried to center it. I was using 20mm EP with the binoviewers and 26mm when I did the alignment. Strange.
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rmollise
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Update: a better outcome this evening. The alignment stars were just out of the EP, but easily findable. After alignment, the GOTOs were better; the moon was right on, hard to miss, Polaris was again slightly out of the field. Maybe I need to use a reticle EP for alignment.
I also noticed that when I switched to my binoviewers, while observing Polaris, the star seemed to migrate down in the FOV and stay there, even if I tried to center it. I was using 20mm EP with the binoviewers and 26mm when I did the alignment. Strange.
Don't worry about the alignment stars being in the eyepiece; just center them up (make sure you are centering the correct stars, of course). If you've got a good drive trainin' and are careful about centering alignment stars, all will be well.
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