[R kevin (Kevin)]

Hi Liz,
I am only new to astronomy have read lot about the CPC 800 here and on other site, please keep this in mind.( Most of my issues are most likely caused by the user)
I have not had to update the firmware. I did try to do but my serial cable would not work with windows 7, my fault did not check the box when purchased.
I have read about and experienced the issue. I am sure a thread is here somewhere that covers some of the things that clause the problem in those cases, wrong time setting http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=89068
I have found that if I do say a 1 star or solar system align the scope will miss the target object or goes the long way round to get to the object. So unless I am just going out for a quick look, like tonight, I now do the 3 star align, I don’t recall the scope going the long way around when I have use this alignment option. Also the scope has a GoTo Approach option that you could check to see if this is no, page 24 of the manual.