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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Did you sync the mount on a star first?
It looks like the mount is not sync'd or is set to the wrong hemisphere. Those errors are massive. 5533 arc sec circle for the errors is way huge. It should be more like 200 or less depending on your mount.
I had this happen with the AP1600 when it was not starting from a known position ie. in AP's case a known park position. When I parked it properly first then manually got it centre a bright star and then sync the mount with that it was all good.
With PMX I had it happen that even though the Sky X said southern hemisphere it wasn't. I had to click on set to southern hemisphere again in TCS and it took a little while and then a lot of the numbers changed and it was fine after that. It was trying to point to northern coordinates.
PMX etc mounts still need to be synced. So check that out.
Greg.
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Hi Greg, apart from homing the mount, i did not perform a sync. the guys from bisque say that ideally the Tpoint model will make this unnecessary. i will sync it next time i am down there (unfortunately i only get to troubleshoot these issues once a week), still doesn't really account for the issues though... the hemisphere is definitely set to south in TCS (attached)