hello all...
After two days of cursing my brand new HEQ5 pro goto mount I finally found the problem. Human error. For the life of me I could not work out why after all the setup was perfect the telescope would point in the wrong direction when asked to find a star.. "etc"
The error was staring me in the face the whole time.
When you first turn on the controller it asks for the date, time and time zone. mm/dd/year.
I was putting the day then the month followed by the year.
So instead of having the date as the 9th of March 2020, I was really telling the hand controller it was the 3rd of September 2020.
I feel like a real fool now. LOL
And of course now that I have worked out my silly mistake the clouds have rolled in for the next four or five days.
oh the fun of being a total beginner..