Fabrizio replied to the topic 'indi_celestron_aux' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hi Thomas,
when I wrote the equatorial alignment instructions, I was focused on my mount that is of fork type, so no meridian flip is required.
For german equatorial mount any motion crossing the meridian obviously needs the meridian flip. This is your case. But even
if you perform the meridian flip, you need to point at the same DE = 0. The 180 degrees of rotation of DE axis combined with the
180 degree of rotation of the polar axis done by meridian flip, keeps DE unchanged. DE intended as celestial coordinate.
In any case, I will add a note for GEMs in the alignment instructions.

Fabrizio

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