Thank you Jerry for the input. That was a question I had about locking onto the brightest star in my FOV with my 50mm guidescope. I will give that a try tonight.

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Wes, Thank you for all the input. I will digest all the info you provided and try to get my mechanical alignment down using the steps you provided.

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Robert, Next on my list was auto-guiding. Its been really cold the past couple months and didn't want to get into till summer. I will look into plate solving with Sharpcap. Thanks for the info.

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Jeff, thanks for all the input. I've got polar alignment down-solid using Sharpcap, so I don't get star trails in my photos anymore, up to 60-sec subs so far. My biggest issue is the go-to with star a

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Hello all, I have been having trouble performing a 2 or 3 star alignment, meaning I am not 100% sure I've locked into the correct star, so I usually take my best guess. This usually throws off my go-t

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I just picked up the AZ adjuster for my iEXOS-100 mount and polar aligned via Sharpcap. Wow what a difference with the AZ adjuster, so much easier. Thanks for the heads up. I got an excellent my first

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Thanks for the info. Could I just make azimuth adjustments via explore stars slewing? Or is this not possible?

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Hello everyone, I have a newbie question. I am picking up a ZWO asi120mc-s camera that I was going to use on my 50mm Orion guide scope to polar align with Sharpcap. My question is, can I just use this

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Thank you very much Max. Next on my list is to get a guide scope and camera, as money permits haha

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@Huangdi Thank you very much for your feedback and advice is always welcome! I am still learning this astro world. I will definitely start using flats, that was on my list of things to do. As far as p

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So, I decided to see what the Mount could do with just my 300mm Nikon lens, no scope and finally got decent results. I did a rough polar alignment and then a 2 star alignment. Then pointed towards And

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Finally, a decent shot of Andromeda! Mount: iEXOS-100 Camera: Nikon D5600 Lens: Nikkor 70/300 15x30sec lights 15 darks 15 Bias Stacked in DSS, editing in Lightroom

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Wes, Thank you for all the excellent info! I think I need to do a better job at PA. I have been doing a PA with my DSLR attached to the scope, trying to PA through the display. I will try with the eye

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Hello all, newbie here. I have been using my iexos-100 Mount for about a month now, along with the ES AR102 scope and still have issues with locking onto the actual target. I have to manually slew to

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5 stars from me. Thanks, -Tommy

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