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Hey thanks for the quick reply.
Yeh I'm almost certain Sirius was right as I first checked on Stellarium with my laptop on location. We were bringing in the new year with the telescope last night so my setup was between 11pm and 1am. I'm certain I've entered everything right, even when doing a new setup after the rollover to January 1st it was still slewing the same way.
I mean I was pretty close to the moon each time I slewed. Just couldn't get it slewed to the centre.
Thinking back it must be the second alignment star as I wasn't as confident with it. I centred it on the brightest star in my scope as I made the assumption the alignment should be alot closer to the second star than it was to Sirius. Maybe this is where I'm falling short.
Is there any star you might recommend using? Bearing in mind I'm in Brisbane. I was by the waterfront last night with some obscurities I could only see about 3/5ths of the sky. Anything west and close to the horizon was not achievable. I cycled through stellarium with the stars my controller offered to see a rough location and whether it was worth slewing to.
In regards the rate I had just read that this morning and was thinking to myself how silly to have not done that myself. It was taking me forever to move the scope because it must have been set on a low rate. Great tip.
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