[Mekon (Paul)]

:help
Can anyone suggest an alternative controlling and alignment setup for my EQ 6.
Last night I went through the three star alignment process and all went well. Three stars were Vega, Alpha Cen and (I forgot the third, but not too high and close to the others).
The scope is on a permanent pier so the position is perfect- it never changes. The Controller is V5, almost new and updated.
The mount is set to EQ and the controller set to that in the setup process - No daylight saving here.
The Lat Long is set correctly, the time and date set to the second. The message comes up alignment successful. Then I told it to do something easy - find Saturn. It was over 20 degrees out. Even telling it to go to Alpha Cen - one of the alignment stars, wasn't close to right.
Finding something difficult is impossible.
This is by no means an unusual situation. Very common in fact.

What alternatives do I have for alignment and a GOTO function?: I have a spare computer I can plug in, a Samsung pad I can use and some spare cash I can throw at this.