Thanks for the replies.......I was at our place at Tuncurry and the Lat/Long were correct, declination was close enough for visual, date and time were set correctly.
Sheeny, I appreciate what you are saying but I did my magnetic alignment without the tripod near the compasses (I used two different compasses and the tripod was about 8 mtrs away). I actually staked the timber alignment jig in place once it was correct and then brought the tripod out and positioned it.
The thing that is pithing me off, is that I have used the same preparation at home in N'cle with few issues but the minute I do it elsewhere I have major problems.
Louie, you have me thinking re the direction of the Dec allowance.........the jig I use up north is one I made on the fly when I left my usual one at home but I've just checked the home one and I'm sure they're the same.
When weather allows I'm going to repeat the procedure here at home and see what happens, I'm also going to try and get my head around scrapping the SynScan hand set and link to the laptop......I have the gear but haven't had the confidence to take that leap.
I'll post back here when the weather clears and I have time to play around.
Again guys, many thanks.
ChrisO
