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Old 05-04-2012, 12:15 PM
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Celestron Nexstar SE mounts don't need to be pointed South, North or any which way! They are not polar aligned, being fork mounted Alt Az.

If you do the auto align, you do not need to know what the names of the stars are. It works it out.

Do you have it GPS enabled? If not, it could be the N/S thing.

Daylight saving is over, so it won't be that.

I think it could be possibly you have the OTA mounted the wrong way around?
Have you tried mounting it the other way?
(Sounds silly I know guys, but it is possible with the Nexstar, believe me, I have done it)

It does sound like a time thing.
Do you have the time zone set to plus 10 ?

I will PM my phone number and we can go through it over the phone if you like,

Al
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