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Originally Posted by faramir
I have recently purchased a LX90 GPS and have never found that with auto align it finds the alignment star very accurately. It simply points to that region of the sky the alignment star is in. It then takes me a minute or two to find the star in the reversed image finderscope. Once I have centred the two alingment stars I find that its goto is very accurate. I initially thought this was a problem with the scope but reading around it seems this is the usual accuracy for alignment. Therefore not sure why yours scope was working so accurately initially. Is the goto OK once you have aligned the scope?
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Maybe I was just lucky the first few times I did it. The GOTO is sort of accurate. The star I slew to is also off centre. What eyepiece do you use when aligning? Also have you calibrated you sensors? How do you find Sigma Octans?