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What amazingly detailed responses - I am blown away!
Guiding has always been excellent on this mount - but I can certainly understand the maxim of the closer to the pole the better your guiding should be. With the SkySensor2000-PC its a bit more complicated than that, given a three star aignment the SS2K will point and track very well even if your 20 degrees off the celestial pole. It compensates for refraction and huge polar mis-alignment in how it runs the motors. So much so that when I run PEMPro I always only do a one star alignment; I didn't think to take this path with Tpoint and MaxPoint modelling the sky - I did full, fresh 3 star alignments before I put them to work.
Given MaxPoint and Tpoint (and if I'm interpreting the 3 star alignment of the SS2K itself correctly) all seem to say move the mount about 2 arc minutes to the East - I think will try that first and see what happens to pointing and tracking.
Next I'm going to try and spend a fair bit of time going through Gary's advice and see what of it I can apply (and understand)!
Wow again folks!
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