[tbothy]

Hi Eric
Ive had a bit of experience with autostar and meade mounts,I used to run a LXD55, try training the Autostar as per page 6 of the manual you quoted this will get the gear ratio's for the motor system.

"It says it is happy but gives me some strange directions to the pole"

Yes this is pretty much what that means, the vees or arrows give arcminutes where the pole is relative to the current calibration, they are quite handy and I wished the SynScan had the same feature.

Is the autostar connected to a meade mount or a different brand mount?

Cheers
Tim