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Originally Posted by callingrohit
Yup it was set correctly S 27 and E 153 as lat and lon respectively.
Stellarium also asked for altitude in and it specified 38m as soon as I entered my exact coordinates. If I entered Brisbane as location it showed 47m as altitude.
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If you had pointed the mount in the "correct direction" ie due south (don't worry about being too accurate here) - you know, as much as true south is, based on your own method of finding it, eg: with a compass etc, then in general terms when you use the hand-controller to do your 1, 2 or 3-star alignments when prompted by the SynScan controller you should be able to get the slewing working quite OK-ish and accurately ONLY AFTER it's aligned!!
The first star offered depends on whether the setup menu for "alignment stars" were based on alpha sort order or by brightness - if you recognise say Canopus then use that as the first one for eg - the mount will slew to where it thinks Canopus is and then this is when you have to use the 4 arrows of the handcontroller to "center" Canopus to the center of the eyepiece manually (it may be quite off the center of your eyepiece view) - you then proceed to the next alignment star (assuming you chose the 2-star alignment option) and repeat the "centering" process and when that's all done you should be able to slew to any object quite accurately
Sorry to be so specific with the above explanation but just to make sure that you're ontrack with how it's being done
You did ask why Stellarium showed that you're spot on your selected object but actually the mount is not pointing in the correct location - reason is because you did not do the star alignment yet - hence Stellarium software thinks it's where it should be BUT it is not correlated to the mount thinking where it actually is because the mount wasn't aligned yet! I may be wrong in this but I'm confident that's the real cause - I been there and done that before!!
If you think about it this way: Stellarium knows where the SCP is, the mount has been star aligned so "knows where" the SCP is and therefore when you slew correctly to say Jupiter - the movement is "synchronised" with Stellarium showing where Jupiter is - if the mount is not aligned then the two results will have no correlation to each other
BTW naskies suggestion is workable too and is useful only when you need very close/accurate polar alignment
HTH
Cheers
Bill