Well you wre right Peter and Chris, I didn't enter the date correctly
. Once I did and entered UT+9 ( for SA) it was all fine, although because I used the finderscope to star align, the degree of acuracy wasn't fantastic (but good enough to make me forget the frustration experienced the previous nights...).
I have some fine tuning to do: get the scope better levelled on the ground, align the finderscope to the telescope with better accuracy. By the way, the biggest issue I have so far with the SW flex is the finderscope, a right angle lense would have been so much better. Also, although I can see through eyepieces well without my glasses, it's all blurry through the finder scope because no focuse is possible. Do focussable finderscope exist?
Thanks Peter and Chris for your help. What would I do without IIS?
Cheers,
Eric