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About polar alignment. So you do some pointing adjustments to the east and some pointing adjustments to the west. After four or five adjustments you get a different prompt and center the last star using manual adjustments on the mount. My issue is, sometimes my mount wants to slew to a star, that will cause my telescope to hit the tripod legs, and I have to stop it before it does. Then I don’t know what to do from there. It's like the sequence is messed up and I have to start over. What do I do then? I have watched all the videos from Losmandy and any videos I can find from other people who use Losmandy mounts. I still can’t seem to get the big picture. I still prefer my G11T, most of the time, but my Celestron mounts seemed easy to polar align by comparison.?

Jeff,

Sounds like you need to reset the mount limits. Personally I use the MI-250 default settings which are the most conservative, or give the widest margins. There is a way set set your personal preferences to specific distances, and I believe there is a Losmandy video on that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0HdmnxXHrA? Once set, your mount should never hit the legs on anything else. Any slew should go to the correct side of the meridian without collision.?

John

Thanks, John. I can sure try the MI-250 settings. I had set the limits but didn’t account for the difference in length between my new refractor and my C8.?

Hi Jeff

Have you tried using PHD drift guiding, sharpcap, polemaster, or any of the other easy-to-use polar alignment tools?

The built in ones are fine, but i think any of the above might be easier


Brian

I have not tried those. I was thinking of getting a polemaster. On other mounts, I have used a polar alignment scope and it was usually close enough. I don’t even know if there is such a thing for my G11T.?

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How do you do default setting for anything on Gemini 2. I haven’t found a video that shows that yet. I have looked through the menu and I haven’t seen it. It has to be something obvious I just missed.

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