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Hi
Glad to see that you have got it worked out and the fix turned out to be a simple. I can also see why your pointing accuracy is way off. In the manual it describes following;
Before any of the described alignments are performed, the telescope mount needs to be positioned so that the index marks are aligned on both the right ascension and declination axes (see Fig 2-8).
Once the index position has been set, the hand control will display the last entered date and time information stored in the hand control. Once the telescope is powered on:
What Celestron should say is “Before powering up the hand controller, the mount needs to be positioned so that the index marks are aligned on both the right ascension and declination axes”. If the hand controller is power up before the index marks are aligned the hand controller will accept that as the home position.
So just looking a one axis, the declination, if the index marks are not aligned, say by about 10 to 15 degrees, and the hand controller is powered up there will be an error of 10 to 15 degrees in declination. Moving the mount to the index marks after powering will not correct for this error. The same will occur in RA if the index marks are not aligned before powering up.
Putting in simply, the index marks must be aligned before the hand controller is powered up. The hand controller need to know the home position e.g. index marks, so that it can calculate were the first alignment star is and so on. If the mount is powered up before the index marks are aligned there will always be an error in pointing.
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