Hi Harb,
There are still known problems with the SSA on some mount models in the southern hemisphere, but Celestron are working on firmware fixes to those problems at the moment. I have been helping their engineers beta test the southern hemisphere fixes here in New Zealand, and while there are still some things to fix, some of the major southern hemisphere SSA problems are already fixed in the latest beta firmware that you can get access to by joining up with the Team Celestron website. I would urge you to do that, and you might find that the latest firmware available there fixes at least some of your SSA problems.
The "out of the box" SSA firmware certainly doesnt work on some mount models down here in the Southern hemisphere.
Cheers,
Chris M
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Originally Posted by Harb
I just fitted one to my CPC1100 last night......
The manual is a bit misleading, as it tells you to press incorrect buttons making the process a lot harder than it actually is.
The main problem I have found, and am yet to fix, is when you do a request to point at say Jupiter, it is not on the list.
The software is supposed to allow pointing to any object ABOVE the horizon, but brings up things that are below the horizon instead......its like its ste to the northern hemisphere, yet is you manually steer it to Jupiter and press identify, it happily tells you it is jupiter ???
Tell it to point to Sirus though and it goes right to it ???
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