Gday Noel
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Micheal at Bintel showed me a trick to align the scope that may help.- First of all declutch the OTA (loosen the gear knobs) so that the scope can move in any direction.
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This trick actually works well with all Meade scopes.
One caveat though.
If you have a scope with RA hardstops, you MUST start from approx home position ( with RA clutch locked ) and let it slew near to the first star,
THEN release the clutches and manually centre.
The scope only knows where it is "relative to the stops", by counting how many encoder ticks it has moved each way,
In DEC this doesnt matter, but in Az/RA, there are some situations where you could choose two ways to get to the align star if fully manual
Pick the wrong way and you may hit the stops later in the night
Andrew