I tested the MX a bit more tonight. After about an hour of building a model, I tried out TheSky's 'tour' feature. A bit confusing as it threw the model out of accuracy - which is probably something I shouldn't have done because I was getting a bit 'hmm, ho hum' after my 40th or so star so I played around a bit
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Anyway, long story short, I just homed the mount, re-synchronised on a star and started the model again, now it works perfectly
! I want to look at 47 Tucanae so I point to it on the sky chart, select slew and voila, dead centre in my eye-pieces (all my scopes now point to the same spot in the sky). I'm stoked.
Now I know I shouldn't have jumped in so quickly because I think I have to turn off auto-corrections in the options somewhere before starting a tpoint model so I'll probably have to do this again, but the way I figure it, a few goes makes me more familiar with the mount and it's operations, the more familiar we are with our tools, the better the outcome and more we can do with them.
So, visual work seems perfect. Tomorrow (or another night because it's late now and I'll probably want sleep tomorrow) I might look at starting my tpoint correctly and build that up over a week or so.
This could not be more fool proof.
