How to solar align a telescope. Celestron Nexstar 102GT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
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Great video! I was just dusting off my old Celestron 4SE and couldn't get it to align. I even bought the GPS module to get a perfect time and lat/long. I'm still getting an error when I go to "fine tune" the Sun. (It says something like correction too great) But at least I'm closer. I live in Canton, MI - not too far from you, I suppose. I just bought one of your Solar Finders. That will be a nice touch next month!
I wonder if you could update the firmware on your controller? I'm not sure if that would help. Thanks for buying one of my finders! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. It's so cool to be able to reach out to fellow astronomy enthusiasts as we get ready for the eclipse. Clear Skies!
@@bryanpryor thanks Bryan. First thing I thought of was upgrading all the modules. No joy. It swings to the right direction within a degree or two but it’s pointing way too low in the sky. So by the time I raise it, I guess it’s “too far” for a proper alignment. When I “point” to Polaris, I guesstimate around 45degrees (and North) so I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.
@@travisbully, I have 2 additional thoughts: 1) try to level your mount as much as possible to start and 2) use an angle gauge to get as close to your latitude as possible (42-43 degrees). You can probably download an app and use a smart phone to measure the angle. Harbor Freight has a manual angle finder for ~$5, or you can find manual and digital angle finders on Amazon. I would start with the smart phone first. It will probably get you really close.
Are you first aligning to the Sun or aligning to Polaris? The method I show is aligning to Polaris first, with a 'rough' method. If you are pointing at polaris but then telling the hand controller that you are aligned to the sun, it won't work. Do you have the option to align directly to the sun?
So I did a reset. Did the one star align and the go to sun. The first thing it does is skew downward until it hits the battery compartment. What is wrong with my scope?
I have the sun align option on my 102slt. Yesterday I did a dry run (no sun out) and it was tracking or at least moving slowly in the general sun direction. Now I am trying to on the sun to see if it keeps it in the view finder. However when I finish the align procedure the scope starts to move away from the sun at a high speed (it seems it thinks the sun is in another location). I also have the WiFi module and have been using the app for alignment however the app has like 10 alignment point. I used a couple of these and I am wondering if that is messing up the scope. Any ideas? How do you do that solar projection btw?
Does it track the sun path automatically??
Yes, once it is aligned it will track the sun.
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I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but yes: a 600x50mm telescope should be able to give you good views of the moon and some views of Jupiter and Saturn. Plus, it might work on some of the brighter objects like Orion's Nebula, Pleiades, and some bright star clusters.