Anyone got experience aligning the nexstar 114Gt?

Carcycle1 · Post by **Carcycle1** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:29 pm

Hi all, wondering if anyone can help me cos i tried to do auto alignment and the handset asks me for certain planets but i only know wher the moon is. And when i try to do alignment according to country location. The handset only has countries like the U.S and asian countries like thailand/phillipines but no Singapore. Could anyone help me ? Thanks!!

Post by **acc** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:23 pm

If you have not read the manual, do read it. It can be downloaded from http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-Nexstar ... B00004ZD38

The nexstar allows you to enter the lat long to set your observing location. Also set NO daylight savings (ie standard time) and GMT +8hrs. Once this is done, when doing AutoAlign, the scope should slew to two bright stars for you to finetune the initial alignment. The manual will have all the details.

Carcycle1 · Post by **Carcycle1** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:29 pm

acc wrote:If you have not read the manual, do read it. It can be downloaded from http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-Nexstar ... B00004ZD38

The nexstar allows you to enter the lat long to set your observing location. Also set NO daylight savings (ie standard time) and GMT +8hrs. Once this is done, when doing AutoAlign, the scope should slew to two bright stars for you to finetune the initial alignment. The manual will have all the details.

Guess i will need to read into details of the manual all over again. Thanks for the help. WIll try tonight to align again.

Post by **acc** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:33 pm

Don't worry, once you get the hang of it, alignment will be a piece of cake. What's important now is to ensure that nexstar has all the right information (location, time zone, whether daylight savings, date, time) so it can perform a good alignment. If you need further help, you can bring the scope to my place for trouble-shooting. Juz drop me a PM.