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Gday Peter
As you have an LX90, you can also cheat
Set the scope up alt/az and in home position, ie with OTA level and pointing north ( within 10deg will do )
Now select the "manual" one star align method.
When it asks for an align star, pick one really bright easy to see star
Sirius or Canopus are good early evening.
It will slew "near" to the target, so Just use the handbox to centre the star, and hit enter.
It will say align successful
Now hold the mode key on the Hbx down for say 5 seconds and release
The display will change to show a readout of position etc
Scroll down till it shows Alt and Az
Now use the Hbx slew keys to manually slew until the OTA is level and pointing north
( ie the AZ reads close as dammit 180deg ( or 0 deg, cant remember ) )
Turn off scope
The OTA is now pointing directly to True Nth.
Just make a mark and you have it.
Andrew
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