Making Sure Synchronization Is Correct - Paramount Fitness ME II User Manual

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Note that during the process of polar alignment, you will be required to synchronize the mount several
times (each time the mount is adjusted to a new altitude and/or azimuth). For permanent installations,
once the mount is sufficiently aligned with the celestial pole, it should not have to be synchronized again
unless the optical tube assembly or the telescope's physical mounting changes.
Portable setups must synchronize the mount each session, or, if a TPoint pointing model will be used, a
Portable Recalibration, as described in the TPoint Add On User Guide, must be performed first.

Making Sure Synchronization Is Correct

The first step to ensure the Paramount is properly synchronized is to look at the hour angle and the
declination of the homing sensors reported by TheSkyX Professional Edition.
When the mount has been properly synchronized, TheSkyX Professional Edition's relative position of the
home sensors should approximately match the absolute position of the home sensors. Remember, the
mount's absolute home position cannot change, so TheSkyX Professional Edition's reported home position
must be near hour angle 2 and declination 0 in the northern hemisphere. If TheSkyX Professional Edition
reports a relative home position that is significantly different from hour angle 2 and declination 0, then
the mount's synchronization is wrong. A small difference is okay, it just means that your
telescope/eyepiece/camera is not perfectly aligned with the mount's axes.
See "Starting Synchronization Over" on page 29 to restore the default settings and resynchronize the
mount.
Note that the above description assumes the Paramount is located in the northern hemisphere and the
Versa-Plate is mounted in the standard orientation (page 65). When the Versa-Plate is mounted in the
wide orientation, then reported home position will be 90 degrees from hour angle 2.
Figure 5: The absolute and relative homing sensor positions.
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