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HEQ5 Setup - My Step by Step - Clean

The document provides instructions for setting up an HEQ5 Pro Synscan mount, including attaching the mount and scope, balancing the mount, performing polar alignment through both eye and GoTo methods, focusing the scope, and basic camera settings for imaging.

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HEQ5 Setup - My Step by Step - Clean

The document provides instructions for setting up an HEQ5 Pro Synscan mount, including attaching the mount and scope, balancing the mount, performing polar alignment through both eye and GoTo methods, focusing the scope, and basic camera settings for imaging.

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HEQ5 Pro Synscan Setup

A) Set up

1. Place the tripod down without the mount and as high as possible, with the “N”
leg facing at the Pole star.
2. Ensure that the tripod is level all three ways using a spirit level, and by
adjusting the length of the legs (keep all legs fully spread)
3. Put the mount on the tripod and secure it using the bolt underneath, centre the
mount by the Azimuth bolts.
4. Attach the accessory tray to brace the legs

B) Mounting the Scope

1. Attach the telescope to the mount


2. While supporting the scope, unlock the RA clutch, rotate the RA and feel for
imbalance. Adjust the weights until balance is achieved. Rotate to 90 degrees,
and then lock the RA clutch
3. While supporting the scope, unlock the DEC clutch, rotate the DEC so that the
scope is roughly parallel to the ground and check for imbalance. Move the
scope in the dovetail until balance is achieved.
4. For imaging, leave the balance with a slight bias towards or away from the
camera (depending upon drift in Dec mode)
5. In RA for imaging, leave the balance with a slight bias to achieve East heavy
moment.

C) Polar Alignment by eye (suitable for all but imaging)

1. Set the mount Latitude to (your local latitude) using the Altitude bolts (set
indoors before going out)
2. Power on the mount, and set the Polar Scope brightness to a comfortable level.
Remove the caps to both ends of the polarscope and look through polarscope
(you may need to rotate the RA axis so that the hole through the mount axis
tube lines up with the hole in the mount body) with one eye and turn the RA
axis to align the long reticle line with Mizar in the other eye (small reticle line
should then align with Cassiopeia). Lock the RA axis. Use the ALT and AZ
bolts to centre Polaris in the small circle.
3. Return the RA and DEC to the “Home” position by eye from the front of the
mount and check by sighting along the scope tube so that Polaris is aligned.
Lock RA and Dec.

D) Setting up GoTo

1. Power up the mount and set up the SynScan


2. Press Enter to skip the main menu and warning
3. Set the Latitude and Longitude exactly
4. Enter the date and time mm/dd/yyyy, and Time Zone (GMT)
5. Enter “Yes” to Daylight Saving at the moment
6. Use the scroll keys to choose “3-Star Alignment”
7. Centre each star after slewing finishes
8. Alignment complete “successful”.

E) Polar Alignment Fine Tuning (Imaging only)

1. Power up the mount and set up the SynScan


2. Press Enter to skip the main menu and warning
3. Set the Latitude and Longitude
4. Enter the date and time mm/dd/yyyy, and Time Zone (GMT)
5. Enter “No” to Daylight Saving at the moment
6. Use the scroll keys to choose “2-Star Alignment”
7. Choose 2 stars on the SAME side of the meridian as your imaging activity.
Use planetarium software to help you. Delta RA should be 3 to 9 hours, Delta
Dec should be 10 to 30 deg.
8. Go to Polar Alignment on the Handset and follow Handset instructions using
one of the stars you chose above. Repeat 6 to 8 until Mel Maz error is less than
30 arc seconds.

General Questions

Focus

1. Slew to a bright star, ideally with a similar altitude to the target object (e.g.
“Scheat” for M31?)
2. Using the Live View x10 of the camera, focus on the star
3. Hang the Bhatinov mask on the front of the scope
4. There should be three diffraction spikes
5. The centre spike may not be centred
6. Focus the scope until the three spikes are perfectly aligned
7. Remove the mask

Camera

Set the camera to the following settings:

1. Exposure length – Bulb


2. ISO - 800
3. Live View (keeps mirror locked). Mirror lock up is a separate menu function
on my Canon.
4. Remote Timer settings – 10 second delay, 60-second subs (unguided)
5. Take as many Lights as possible
6. Take the same number of Darks afterwards (same sub length as lights, with
scope cap on)

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