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My approach is to find something close that you can easily recognise. There's a Globular cluster (M2) about 14 degrees away. Slew to that and see how close the mount gets you and in which direction. Then have it slew to Neptune and you would expect it to be off by a similar amount and direction. I also suggest printing out a chart with your widest occular field on it and another with a medium power. The wide one will enable you to work out which way up to hold the other chart when you are star hoping.
Thanks for the prompt. I haven't looked at the outer planets for years and I must do so next time.
Pluto will be a tough ask. It's very dim and in the milky way with countless other really dim dots.
Steve.
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