John - I did famil myself in the living room initially, and was happy, with a VERY ROUGH polar align it seemed to point OK, then noticed it said Spica was above horizon, when I knew it wasn't - I had the month set to 8 instead of 9....
Come to think of it, I didn't think my polar align roughness should have caused 30deg errors!
Tony - I am savvy with UTC/GMT/Z/K/L time and adjustments, having just spent 5 months in the Middle East where we had to work in numerous time zones on the hop..... no problems there.
I am going to get a 13.8V DC supply though - will be less back strain than the 70AH deep cycle battery - I should be able to run half a dozen mounts at a star party with that bad-boy!
Now I just need some more clear nights!
Does anyone have any hints for painless (or less painful) polar aligning - I noticed Gemini has polar align corrections in it, where it slews to where a star *should* be, then you alt/az correct it - does this work nicely? - the manual claims accuracy to about 2'.....
