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Originally Posted by Amaranthus
Interesting - there is no calibration star option for the alt-az mount, and based on my experience, redoing alignment stars after the initial two makes little/no difference on pointing accuracy (for my SE). So I wonder why they include this for the EQ mount?
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No, but there is "Precise goto"...which looks like it "calibrates" on a star in the vicinity of the object you want to view.
It is interesting how different the software is between the alt-az and equatorial mounts, but using two-star align and adding 4 calibration stars is pretty quick (it's doing all the slewing, you just agree to the stars) and accurate (in my experience). More accurate than the SE for sure, but the SE is hard to beat for convenience
There's also the polar alignment assist "all star", but that currently doesn't work for the southern hemisphere, at least for the AVX
(strange because the Skywatcher equivalent works quite well)