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Well I tried again tonight with no luck. I entered in the date, time etc and even trained the drives. When I did the align, the scope went to the 'general' part of the sky but was way off. Every star I tried was to the right and above the scope (so the scope was down and to the left of the star). And it wasn't just a bit off. It was quite a way.
Even when I got the scope aligned the stars that I tracked to were off to the side of the FOV, not in the centre.
I'm not sure what to do. The only thing I can think of that may have put the scope out of alignment is that a while back I had a 2" diagonal on the scope was slewing near the zenith, the diagonal pushed against the bottomof the fork assembly..........not very hard but I'm wondering if I've somehow mucked up the fork alignment.
Is there a site that gives step-by-step instructions on how to train the drives, calibrate the sensors and do a proper 2-star alignment?
If I can't fix it soon I'm going to take the scope back to the store as a faulty unit and get a new one. Maybe pay the extra for an LX200.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One thing I did learn was to not do a 2 star alignment with a 13mm eyepiece.
Cheers.
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