Need help with new Sirius Mount...I'm an idiot, so

Just got a Sirius EQ-G Mount with a hand controller. All I want to do is slew and then solar track. I did a daytime alignment but the sun isn't listed as an object. I don't know how to proceed. I am an Alt-Az kind of a guy. If anyone is willing to communicate with me to help me, much obliged. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post.

Marc Whitsett

I am surprised that solar system is not an object.....did you look under "Solar System" objects.

At any rate, if it is not listed, just use your directional controls to move the scope up/down/left/right till it points at the sun. Nobody needs goto to locate the sun.

Now, I am assuming you have the mount aligned to polar North when I say this. If you do, and use the directional buttons to go to the sun, it will stay on the sun for some time.

Alex

Marc Whitsett said:

Just got a Sirius EQ-G Mount with a hand controller. All I want to do is slew and then solar track. I did a daytime alignment but the sun isn't listed as an object. I don't know how to proceed. I am an Alt-Az kind of a guy. If anyone is willing to communicate with me to help me, much obliged. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post.

Marc Whitsett

Well, it's not that hard to find the Sun. If you simply must go-to it, you could look up its current coordinates and enter it as a User Object. If you did some kind of alignment, the mount is tracking in RA already and that is not a problem. You can select Solar rate under "Select Tracking" in the setup menu of the SynScan.