[CDKPhil]

The last few days have been fine and sunny here in the Canberra region.
I managed to get the the MX out for its first test run. I set it up on the pier, put the weights on then the OTA, balanced, then plugged it in to my Mac book Pro. Flicked the on switch, the red lights came on, the mount beeped twice and made a pleasant humming noise. I selected the connect telescope button in the Sky X, "Connected", "do you want to slew to the home position" yes, and away it went.

I followed the instructions to do a quick polar alignment. It was just that, very quick and easy. I then synchronised on a star and started to do a T point calibration run. After about twenty points I re adjusted the polar alignment. and started again. This is way to easy.
Last night I did a calibration run of 100 points. This was just using an illuminated reticle. I ended up with a pointing accuracy of 11 arc seconds RMS.
After the model was finished it was such a pleasure to use. Click on any thing that was in the chart and away the mount went, no fuss. Then looking into the eye piece and seeing the object dead centre or near enough was fabulous.
I might be able to refine this a little more by doing a larger model, and refining the polar alignment.

What a great piece of engineering and software. Money well spent.

Cheers
Phil