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Hi,
I'm fairly new to astronomy (if you ignore 40 years of reading...) and am having problems with my new EQ5 GOTO mount. Following the instructions, I point it to the south pole and then try to use the three star align. The mount seems to go to odd places. I "Park" it, which points it back to the pole and then get it to point to Jupiter. When I do this, it points rougly to the ecliptic, but the RA appears to be mirrored (ie the right distance from the zenith, but on the wrong side). However, it seems to track objects when I manually point it manually. For example it tracked eta Carina quite happily for over five minutes before I moved to another object (manually).

Anyone got any ideas?