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Originally Posted by whmacs
Hi Guys,
Hopefully not too off topic, I've always had a lot of trouble with the initial alignment star if I put in my local date / time / DST offset and time zone. For example, last night after upgrading to v3.21 I took my HEQ5-PRO for a test run. I entered +10 time zone, local date time plus DST to 'Yes'. My Lat and Long was already set (Newcastle NSW). I had the scope roughly aligned to the SCP (Home position). When I selected the first alignment star (Sirius), the scope slewed and pointed to the ground. This isn't the first time its done this. It also use to do it with V3.12.
My answer to this issue is to power off the mount, reset the home position, then power on again. This time enter the UTC time (time zone 0) DST No. The Lat and long stay saved. Now it slews to within a couple of degrees of Sirius. The other alignment star is similar and all gotos end up in the middle of the eyepiece.
I was wondering if other people have had similar issues with the scope slewing towards the ground if they use local time / DST correction?
Regards,
Stephen
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After I upgraded to version 3.20 (not the recent one) I found that it didn't want to keep my timezone of +10 hours. I would set it and start the alignment and it would do as you state and aim at the ground. If you cancelled the alignment and checked the info in the controller, it would say -10 hours. I reset it many times and finally it accepted the correct time zone. I don't remember what I actually did to make it accept it. Since then it has been happy and I haven't had this problem again.