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I've now found it necessary to remind myself of exactly how to enter latitude and longitude, so I thought I'd pass on the information.
Last week we were at a star party 400km from home, and I decided to do a quick solar system alignment to scan the planets. At which point I realized that I'd need to change the lat/long settings, which I tried to do from memory and failed. I didn't feel inclined to waste time on a beautiful night fumbling through the menus in the dark, so I reverted to manual operation.
Now that we are back home, I've worked out how to do it.
Under Menu, you will find two relevant sections.
One is View Time-Set. Here you can inspect all the current settings.
The other is Scope Setup -> Setup Time-Set.
Under this item, you will find
City Database and
Custom Site.
For Australia, the city database is rather limited, limited to capital cities and a couple of other places.
But under Custom Site, you can enter precise latitude and longitude settings.
These settings persist across sessions. So subsequently you just need to enter date and time every time you restart the scope.
In future, I'm going to try to remember to do this at home inside before we go away!
Hope that helps, Andrew
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