Physically Marking The Home Position - Paramount Fitness ME II User Manual

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3. Choose the Connect command from the Telescope menu. The mount Status text will show
Homed.
4. Choose the Find Home command from the Start Up pop-up menu on the Telescope window. The
mount will slew to the home position. The mount Status text will show
5. Choose the Turn Tracking Off command from the Tools pop-up menu on the Telescope window.
Turn tracking off to pin the mount to this position.
6. Choose the TPoint Add On command from the Telescope menu.
7. Then turn off the Apply Pointing Corrections checkbox on the Setup tab and click Close. TPoint
will change the position of the telescope cross hairs based on the current model and we want the
label to show the "unmodeled" cross hair position.
8. Click on the center of the telescope cross hair and note the exact altitude and azimuth of this
position. This is the horizon-based coordinate of the home position.
9. Choose the My Chart Elements command from the Input menu.
10. Click the Add Object button (the upper-left most button on the Manage tab), then click the Add
and Edit button to add an object to the Sky Chart.
11. On the Add/Edit Chart Element window, turn on the Horizon radio button, then enter the azimuth
(Azm) and altitude (Alt) of the telescope cross hair. In the Label text box, enter the text Absolute
Home Position and then click OK.
The Sky Chart now shows a label at the absolute home position of the mount. To double-check the
accuracy of this position, choose the Find Home command. Note that, when compared to the absolute
home position, the position of the telescope cross hairs on the Sky Chart will also be affected by the
following:

Synchronizing the mount on a star introduces small pointing errors.

A TPoint pointing model will change the position of the telescope cross hairs based on the pointing
calibration data.
The above two items necessarily introduce a small offset between the mount's absolute home position
and the position of the telescope cross hairs after finding home (once the mount has been synchronized
and a TPoint model is established).

Physically Marking the Home Position

If, after finding the home position, the cross hairs that are displayed on the Sky Chart are at the wrong
coordinates, one or more of the following is probably true:

The mount is not aligned to the celestial pole. (Believe it or not, Software Bisque has had several
support cases claiming that the mount could not point the telescope correctly, only to discover
the Paramount's polar axis was mounted in the wrong direction; for example, the polar axis was
pointing south in the northern hemisphere, in other words, 180 degrees off.)

The optical tube assembly is mounted "backwards" on the Versa-Plate.

In TheSkyX Professional Edition's location, date, time, time zone or Daylight Saving Time settings
are wrong for your observing site.
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Not Synced.