Beginner - Nexstar 6SE Alignment Question
Hello all. I have a Celestron 6SE and would really appreciate any advice you guys can give regarding the alignment process. I am located in rural South Australia on the central Eyre Peninsula. We have perfect dark skies making it an ideal spot for astronomy.
The issue is with the Timezone setup - Adelaide is in Time Zone 9 but as you know it is a half hour zone, unlike most other cities in the world.
I recently added a Skysync GPS to the setup to try to simplify the alignment since it can automatically pass location and time information to the scope. However (and I'm not sure why this is the case), the software still needs to know the time zone... If the GPS tells it where it is on earth and the universal time, why should it need the TZ specified?
Anyway, I look forward to learning plenty from this great hobby.
Cheers,
David
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