Thursday 6th Sept – anyone visiting?

[Marc Bunyan]

Hi All,

It looks like the skies have just cleared and are looking to stay that way – I’m hoping to get a little closer to getting accredited on a scope (please) – would anyone accredited and can assist in accreditation on the skywatcher eq6 setup please contact me so that I can chalk this one off finally 🙂

I’d be looking to head over around 9pm…

Cheers,

-marc

• This topic was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Marc Bunyan.

[Simon Lewis]

I can’t help you there Marc but I too have recently bought a Skywatchers EQ6-R mount. It’s my first eq mount and I am really struggling to get Polar alignment!

I am currently using my 8” SCT on the mount.

I would really appreciate some help one weekend night soon.. can’t get out there weeknights unfortunately.

Please can someone let me know if they are able to give me a tutorial.. I’m even happy to come to you if needs be!

Much appreciated and clear skies

[Anonymous]

I was in the same situation as you Daniel. Except with an HEQ5 Pro. There is a software called sharpcap pro. I think it’s around $20 and it has a polar alignment feature in it which is amazing. Couldn’t live without it! I’ll be happy to help you set it up next time I’m at the observatory

[Simon Lewis]

Thanks Josh. I would appreciate it. I can get rough alignment but then i’m having trouble with 2 or 3 star alignment also so a quick run through from anyone that can help would be very appreciated. assuming clear skies, and the forecast looks reasonably good, is anyone going out on Saturday?

 

Thanks heaps

[Anonymous]

It might be a good idea to have some sort of agenda for accreditation, like an actual scheduled event where some can get the accreditation? I would love to as well, but as there is no really good way it takes a long time, which Marc is also experiencing.

[Terry Richardson]

Unfortunately accreditation is not a 1 session job. You are required to be competent (usually easy to achieve) but also experienced which happens over many sessions until a couple of accredited committee members are happy. This is not a finite time and depends on the person and frequency of use. Things are better than they were with many like yourselves interested enough to put the time into it. I myself wish to be at the observatory as often as weather allows in order to help achieve this.

[Anonymous]

Are you going to come tonight Terry? Marc has shown interest and Vincent is always keen. I’ll be there and Simon likely as well

[Anonymous]

Agreed Terry, it’s about experience ofcourse and I’m more than happy to get it as it’s awesome anyway. 🙂 But it would be nice if people had a bit better way to know when the right people are at the observatory to watch and teach and for those that teach, to know a bit about how many times they’ve seen a person learn. Which is why I thought about some sort of online agenda.

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