PoleAlignMax

I went out with PoleAlignMax last night.

After some frustration (not knowing how to use the ASCOM telescope interface, setting the plate solving parameters correctly.......) I got it to make the little bulls-eye and tell me what it thought was wrong with the polar alignment on my G11 (C9.25@F63, ST-7, The Sky5, Level 4, CCDSoft).

Then it told me to center any bright star in the rectangle. And I could not figure out what it wanted me to do.

What is the next step?

Where is the rectangle they are talking about? How do I know if it is centered? ETC.....

Anybody know of a good set of instructions out there?

Alex

There is a PoleAlignMax/FocusMax users group on Yahoo. The authors of PAM hang out there.

Feel free to email me as well but I'm just an ordinary user, not the author.

What software are you using? What version and what version of PAM? There should be a box on your screen - a white outline of a box.

There was a bug with PAM not showing the box on the screen with some software. IIRC it was with an old (maybe 1-2 year old) version of Maxim. But with the current Maxim (either the newest version 4 or the newest version 5 of Maxim) and with the current version of PAM the box shows up fine.

Drew Sullivan