I had my shiny new heq5pro out under the stars the other night trying to come to grips with the hand controller and the idiosyncrasies of this mount. It has version 3.12 firmware.
After a couple of tries I got an acceptable two star alignment but there is some weirdness in the operation of the goto function.
1) I asked the mount to goto the gem cluster, so the mount starts slewing to the left (viewing from behind) and then the dec axis attempted to grind my refractor diagonal into the southern tripod leg
2) I later manually slewed to saturn, then I thought I might invoke 'goto Saturn' to see how far the goto would be off reality. Well the mount did find saturn but only after doing a meridian flip and pointing from the other side.
Is there something in the setup which can make the mount choose the more sane of two pointing solutions to a target?
Is it related to choice of alignment stars, their order, or having a park position set?