Star Adventuring

My new-to-me, but used, Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount has arrived! As discussed in another post, the plan is to use this on a Neewer Carbon Fiber (sic) 65 tripod to mount a TS Photoline 72mm OTA and Canon 450D, possibly with a few other small bits and pieces.

For the moment I’ve just set it up on the tripod and here’s how it looks:

Yes, the red mount and the blue tripod clash, but it is what it is…

I’ve tried nothing out yet, but the first steps will be to power it up and use a laser pointer to check its accuracy and to check the polar scope is correctly aligned with the RA axis. I believe there’s a firmware upgrade that I might also need to look into. And I don’t have a polar scope illuminator. I’m not entirely sure I really need one however. I spent a long time aligning my EQ3-2 by shining a red torch down the polar scope and I’m sure I can do that here too. Perhaps I can do something with drift alignment, too.

Anyhow, first thing is to read the instructions and get my head around how it actually works.

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