[Geoff0409 (Geoff)]

Hi all - Geoff here

I am trying to help my grand daughters set up their Celestron SC telescope for use. We are having a couple of issues I hope someone can help me with

The first issue is star alignment. I do a manual polar alignment then go to the 2 star alignment process. The software slews to a star and asks me to centre it in the viewfinder and then in the telescope. The issue I am having is that the finder scope has too narrow a field of view for me to identify and centre the correct star. This happened with easily identifiable stars in the Southern Cross. I manually try to sight across the finder scope but still can’t identify the correct star through the finder scope

Should I look at getting a finder scope with a wider field of view or is there some other method?

The second issue is that the remote hand piece of the mount operates in azimuth using the up/down buttons and in elevation using the left and right buttons?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
Geoff