I have just purchased sky safari plus. I was using sky portal before to control my celestron evolution 9mounted on a wedge) but people said get Skysafari.
However in the skyportall app there was a wedge align option. The procedure for wedge align was to align the index markers on the telescope and then use 2 star in the eastern hemisphere and 2 in the west and then I found the alignment to be very good. i cannot find this in sky safari, how do i wedge align the set up ?
This should be in there. SkyPortal is just a simplified version of SkySafari. You do have to choose Celestron Wi-Fi as the scope type to see the same options. After that you choose "Setup and Control" from the Scope Setup screen to specify you are on a wedge. Note you must connect to the mount to see and change these settings.
That worked thanks, app looks great.
Good to hear. Have fun.
On the wedge align issue again...
Just stuck the wedge on and set the latitude as well as I can. I’ve lined up the markers as well and tried the EW two stars idea with not huge success for AP tracking. What I do not get is how to physically make sure the mount is well lined up including making any fine adjustment of the latitude and azimuthal screws using SkyPortal or SKy Safari. There seems to be a step missing for good physical placement prior to getting the scope software calibrated. I feel like I do not have all the steps needed to do this well. Thanks.
Meant to add I used iPhone compass in True north mode to do an initial azimuthal placement and I have the axis markers lined up.