Paramount MX User Guide
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Step 4
Verify TheSkyX Professional Edition is correctly configured for the observing site’s
date, time, location and time zone.
•
Double-check the settings on the
Custom
tab of the
Location
window.
•
If an internet connection is available, choose the
Verify TheSkyX Time
command on the
Tools
menu to confirm
TheSkyX Professional Edition
is
configured correctly.
Step 5
Choose the Find Home command on the Start Up pop-up menu from the Telescope
window.
The mount will slew to the fixed, mechanical home position.
Step 6 Clear the existing synchronization.
See “Starting Synchronization Over” on page 24 for the step by step procedure.
Step 7
Using TheSkyX Professional Edition as the mount controller (not the joystick), click on
and slew to a bright star that is within 5 degrees of the pole, or, below the pole and
within 5 degrees of the meridian.
Choosing a star elsewhere may introduce spurious adjustments, partly in lieu of hour
angle synchronization error, partly because the motion of the star will be insensitive to
adjustments in the mount’s polar axis.
Take, for example, a star near the zenith. Although the elevation adjuster will work
fine, the one in azimuth will not – you can rotate it to your heart's content and the star
will not move. A less likely example is a star low in the west or east where adjustments
in elevation will not appear to do anything.
After slewing the mount to the
computed position
of the star (that is, where the mount
would slew if the polar axis was aligned with the pole) the altitude and azimuth of the
mount’s polar axis can be adjusted until the bright object is centered in the field of
view.
From this point on,
do not use the hand controller
or
TheSkyX Professional Edition
to
slew the mount.
Step 8
Using the mount’s mechanical Altitude and Azimuth Adjusters, center the object in
the telescope’s field of view.
Rotate the altitude and azimuth adjusters (this changes the position of the telescope)
until the object is centered in the field of view.
Do not use any other method, such as the joystick on the hand controller or TheSkyX
Professional Edition’s Move To Commands or Slew command, to adjust the position of
