ok so it ended up being a bug in the code. If you use DST in southern hemisphere it goes all whacko.
setting time to gmt +11 and dst off, and doing a 2 star align on rigel and achernar and everything worked flawlessly. in fact the goto accuracy was stunning, on the 11mm on the 80ED everything i went to was either dead center or darn close to it! it was perfect.
time to plug a camera into this sucker now
