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<blockquote data-quote="ArloG" data-source="post: 1165305" data-attributes="member: 418555">Yeah. In my illustration the rear dish mount plate angle should be equal to putting a straight edge across the dish face. Dish on the pivots at zenith (highest in the arc). The same angle as the red line, your elevation angle. Which is your latitude.Then tilting the dish down 22.5 degrees would&nbsp; put the look angle perpendicular, 90 degrees, to the red elevation angle.With the dish set there. You would be tracking an imaginary arc above the equator. Where geostationary satellites are parked.Then. Adding the correct declination to the dish mount. You let the dish 'peek' down at the satellites.Love it when people add silly things.Like. Maybe the OP can't see or find the North Star in the daytime. Neither can I.Never the less. The same concept applies to an equatorial mount telescope. Which has a star finder that lies parallel with the red line in my sketches. The exact same as using the dish face or dish mount plate angle for setup. Exact.Do you concur?Edit:Surprised nobody has mentioned dishpointer.com</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ArloG, post: 1165305, member: 418555"] Yeah. In my illustration the rear dish mount plate angle should be equal to putting a straight edge across the dish face. Dish on the pivots at zenith (highest in the arc). The same angle as the red line, your elevation angle. Which is your latitude. Then tilting the dish down 22.5 degrees would put the look angle perpendicular, 90 degrees, to the red elevation angle. With the dish set there. You would be tracking an imaginary arc above the equator. Where geostationary satellites are parked. Then. Adding the correct declination to the dish mount. You let the dish 'peek' down at the satellites. Love it when people add silly things. Like. Maybe the OP can't see or find the North Star in the daytime. Neither can I. Never the less. The same concept applies to an equatorial mount telescope. Which has a star finder that lies parallel with the red line in my sketches. The exact same as using the dish face or dish mount plate angle for setup. Exact. Do you concur? Edit: Surprised nobody has mentioned dishpointer.com [/QUOTE]

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