[swannies1983 (Dan)]

Ok, I'm a complete newbie when it comes to GoTo and I'm not sure where to start. Well, for those that don't know, I have an EQ6 fitted with Astromeccanica motors, which is run via a DA1 handcontroller. It's a non-goto controller but you can use software to make it goto.

Right, so how do I use Alignmaster? I have put in my co-ordinates and the time offset. I'm in Adelaide so I need to put in +10.5 (I'm not sure the + is needed). If I do this at the present time (10.15PM), it says UT: 11/11/2011 11:45:00 AM at the top left hand corner and LMST :0.20:00 in the right hand corner. Is this correct?

I now come to selecting stars. I chose the first one and the scope slews but completely in the wrong direction. If I let it keep going, it will end up pointing down towards the ground. I have got the co-ordinates as EAST for longitude and SOUTH for latitude.

The ASCOM driver is outdated and there is only one that I can use with this mount. I'm not sure if this is the problem?

Maybe it's my starting position. I'm roughly pointing it towards the SCP. Is this correct?

Not sure where to go from here guys.....


Actually, I don't know what the mount is doing. It just continues to slew and I have to stop it before the scope crashes into the mount.