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Hey,
I had a similar problem when starting out with my NEQ6, the mount tried to track to stars below the horizon despite having been fairly certain that the mount was pointed south (i.e the bolt in bartmans pic was facing south). The problem it seems is that I was rushing through setup and didnt notice the fact that the NEQ6 uses that annoying MM/DD/YY date setup... whoops.
With that solved the scope pointed in the general direction of the alignment stars but needed to much correction to gain success.
As I couldnt see the SCP from my house due to some trees, I found the easy way for a ballpark 3 star alignment was to choose the first star (i.e. Alpha cen) allow it to slew and then rather than using the handcontroller to adjust, I would adjust the alt/az as if you were polar allinging on alpha cen. From there you could select the next two known stars and adjust with the hand controller as per normal.
This simple setup is not any good for anything but visual use but will give you a fairly accurate visual tour.
hope it helps get you started
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