Observing Log for Mike Durkin 6/21/2020 about 12:00-1:30AM Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 5/10, Seeing 2/5 Temperature: about 60-70 degrees Equipment: Synguider II, AstroTrac TT320X-AG and 50mm guidescope Kind of crummy observing conditions, but I did want to at least test out the Synguider II that I just got. I decided to use the Astrotrac. I only polar aligned very roughly by just using my eyes. Focusing was a little tricky, but I think if I leave the focus on the scope as is, it should not be too hard to get a star again. I pointed the guidescope to Arcturus. The disaply of the Synguider is a bit faint and I had to take off my glasses in order to see the text. Additionally if I am not using a diagonal, the angle of the display may be very awkward. Once I had the star visible, trying to calibrate didn't work. I was afraid that the autoguiding port on the Astrotrac was broken. However as I was about to pack up, I noticed that the cable for the Astrotrac is a little different. It has 6 pins on one side and 8 on the other. So after I swapped out the cable for the guide port and used the one provided with the Astrotrac, I was able to calibrate. And I was happy to see that the Synguider was able to skip over Declination guiding since the Astrotrac and Star Adventurer can only track in RA. I did notice however that the star was drifting much quicker in 1 axis that I would have liked. hopefully that is just because I didn't do a proper polar alignment and this would be much less of an issue with better alignment. Also had a cat hanging around for attention Other Log Entries <-- 2019 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr   May  Jun   Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec  2021 -->