Thank you Rob, Bill and Robin for your replies.
Yesterday even though it was getting cloudy I thought to just try it out to get an experience out of it as I was unpacking a brand new heq5 pro.
Anyways got it all balanced between the weights and the scope.
Got hitecastro working on my laptop and could control the scope via using stellarium scope, eqmod ascom & stellarium.
I was able to get the mount to slew where ever I pointed it on the stellarium.
However, the accuracy was zero. I pointed the north leg of the tripod to true south. I used my android based compass, had a setting change to true north and I hope this showed me the true south. (I think this assumption could be wrong).
Anyways done that and I expected that if I point to Jupiter in the east (easily visible from my backyard), the telescope will slew in east somewhere and not to exactly where Jupiter should be (between the clouds I could see its exact location and ofcourse I had stellarium).
But the telescope started slewing into the south direction and stopped - stellarium showed - its on jupiter !!!
So I'm a bit baffled
as to what this indicates. I also tried various trial and error methods but the direction which I would predict for the telescope would always be wrong once I selected a target on stellarium in a known direction ?
Any clues guys
?
Sorry for the long post but I wanted to provide as much info as possible to get the correct advice. Its sort of overwhelming with the amount of info out there.
Thanks