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Having owned a few eq mounts now, including an azeq6, I found it's not that unusual for your first alignment star to be quite a way off.
If I might suggest using a wider field ep to assist in locating the star in the fov before switching out for your 20mm reticule to do the alignment. Even then, you may find the second star quite a bit out though, usually not as far.
Additionally, if your mount is not getting sufficient volts this will make skews erratic & more often than not, your star will be way off...
Finally, buried in your synscan handset menus is an alignment star filter setting. You can turn this off which will open up a few more stars for you. Essentially, the reason you only get a handful for the 2nd star is it's trying to give you the best 2nd alignment star based upon the first one you select. It will be looking for stars on the same side of meridian with the best angular cut. That's why the selection is limited as it is.
Also, you will find when you setup in alt/az mode it won't slew to your first alignment star, you have to drive it on, it will however slew to your second star. This is different to how it behaves in eq mode.
Hope this helps
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