[C8er (Chris)]

Hi All,

I am looking for advice on best southern hemisphere settings for two scope setup settings for my two goto mounts.

OTA is an 8" f10 SCT with star diagonal normally viewed through at slew speeds 1-6 (correct vertical view but reversed horiz view) with a straight 6x30 finder (reversed vert and horiz views) mostly viewed through at slew speeds 7-9.

My two mounts are:
1. Celestron SE8 altaz goto mount.
2. Celestron CG-5 equatorial goto mount.

The two mount setup settings I am looking for southern hemisphere (New Zealand) and my OTA and finder type recommendations for are as below, for both mounts if they are going to be different.

1. Mount Goto Approach settings.

2. Mount Button Directions setting ( for certain slew speeds).

As well as recommendations for those settings, a recommendation of what final vert and horiz button pushes to use to finish an alignment or manual goto for the recommended mount settings would be great.
I have tried to read up about but this but conflicting recommendations have well and truly confused me.

I have managed to get backlash settings done and working well, and have upgraded my Nexstar+ HC firmware to latest version to successfully fix a runaway gotos problem on the SE mount (my CG-5 mount has the older Nexstar HC), but the best goto approach and button direction settings have me confused, on both mounts.

Cheers.