Bloody dumb, is all I can say.
Fired up the NEQ6 last night for the first time in a while, and it is proposing absurd stars to do the alignment process with! INCLUDING stars that are below the horizon!
And yes, I was inputting the correct date (mm/dd/yyyy), time and coordinates...
The star selection list it complies is so narrow, limited and inconsistent. Chose one star for the first alignment, and it compiles a very limited list for the second star. Chose a different star for the first alignment, and a totally different list of stars comes up for the second that can actually be more extensive.
I can understand the programming wanting to chose stars that are as far apart as possible, but this is not the case. As an example, I chose Alpha Centauri as the 1st, and in the list of second stars it includes Acrux, Hadar and Gacrux! WTF!? Bloody hell, it was even selecting mag 4 stars too!
Could it have to do with the version of firmware I'm using? Because it was flaming bloody difficult and so time consuming to do a three star alignment last night, as it just complied bloody stupid and limited lists of alignment stars to select from, and it meant I had to stop and start again several times.
Freaking frustrating as I was at an outreach event too
(Murphy's Law, right...
)
Some help and a Bex would be appreciated,
Alex.