Hi all
Hopefully a quick question. I'm about to restart mounting my dish
(Actually I'm getting a 90cm round to put on my Technomate TM2300 Mk2)
I just have some doubts about calculating angles. Elevation/Latitude on the motor is easy enough: 53.5° for Manchester. I'm just unsure of the declination angle/dish angle. I'm getting various conflicting answers, 7.6°, 22.4° and 39° depending what I read!
Can anyone indicate what it might be, and the correct way to work it out?
Thanks!
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I am becoming more confident of:
Site latitude is 53.5 (from OS map! Amongst other things)
So I set rotor latitude scale to 53.5, NOT elevation scale 37°
Declination is 7.6 (from rotor manual)
Therefore rotor manual suggests dish angle 22.4° approx?
Does that sound about right?
Hopefully a quick question. I'm about to restart mounting my dish
(Actually I'm getting a 90cm round to put on my Technomate TM2300 Mk2)
I just have some doubts about calculating angles. Elevation/Latitude on the motor is easy enough: 53.5° for Manchester. I'm just unsure of the declination angle/dish angle. I'm getting various conflicting answers, 7.6°, 22.4° and 39° depending what I read!
Can anyone indicate what it might be, and the correct way to work it out?
Thanks!
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I am becoming more confident of:
Site latitude is 53.5 (from OS map! Amongst other things)
So I set rotor latitude scale to 53.5, NOT elevation scale 37°
Declination is 7.6 (from rotor manual)
Therefore rotor manual suggests dish angle 22.4° approx?
Does that sound about right?
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