[EricB (Eric)]

Hi there!

I have recently purchased a Sky Watcher collapsible 10" GOTO. After days of frustrating cloudy nights, at last I get a chance to see the scope in action on Saturday. I set up during day light, read the GOTO section of the instruction manual to make sure I am on top of things before nightfall. The first stars appear, I set up the synscan goto as per instruction. I do a bright star alignment. Alignment successful says the handset. I press the Tour key to see what's out there and select Orion. The scopes slews to the right general direction and stops short nowhere near orion. I try the two star alignment, get the first star in the finderscopes, Enter, the scope slews to the second star but nowhere near it again (about halfway).

I have tried again tonight. Checked my coordonates. Same thing again and again. The scope misses all the targets and doesn't go to. It looks like the scope doesn't recognise where it is (it tells me Jupiter in the the eastern sky when it's in the northewest...). As far as I know I have set up the scope correctly. I don't move the scope by hand during the process and set up the scope on reasonably well levelled ground. What am I missing? Has anyone had any issue such as this one?

Thank you in advanced for you advice.

Cheers,

Eric