1st light after rough altitude alignment of Takahashi on CP-180

Yesterday evening we tried many things on the Takahashi/CP-180 setup of Halley observatory:

- Eos450d comes in focus with special adapter

- Azimuth alignment acceptable

- Altitude alignment difficult. EQalign needed 25 (!) iterations with CP-180 level to reach polar alignment. After letting the CP-180 lean backwards for approx. 5 degrees only 12 iterations (still too much) were needed. 

- I tried a PHD calibration and that succeeded. After that we took a 30sec exposure @ iso1600. See the picture. The collimation is acceptable but the alignment is still not good enough. We need to modify the base of the mount mechanically I think.