well, I took it out for a quick go last night but didn't quite get there.. I think my newbieness got in the way, I went thru the initial setup stuff (except inputing location and time), I then switched mount type to dobsonian and tried a 90degree ref/2 star align on Rigel and Sirius, got a warp factor of 0.05 (might have been negative can't remember) but when I tried to get M42 from the catalog it gave me huge numbers on both axes which would have moved the scope into an entirely different part of the sky, I then retried with Rigel and Procyon, got a warp of 0.08 but again it didn't seem to know where it was in catalog or identify modes.. I'm wondering if I incorrectly set the encoder direction since I don't really understand ra/dec
, I was facing roughly north, moving the scope towards east gave +ve increase so I assumed Az was ok, then I'm supposed to move the Scope toward North, I took this to mean moving it vertically toward the horizon (wrong?) which resulted in decreasing numbers so I reversed the sign on the Alt axis.. I'll read it all again and give it another go but can anyone spot an obvious error from the above? Thanks! Bruce