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Gday Shane
All Mozzie is saying is do a std 2 star align manually.
Then goto Sig Oct ( As its an LX200, you can use HD 177482 as an identifier as well )
The scope will go to a location pretty close to Sig oct.
Centre it and mark your setting circles on this point.
When you then do the calibrate sensors,
the scope will use its level and North sensors
to "try" and point at Sig Oct. ( It will be way off )
All you then do ( without looking in the EP or finder ) is manually slew the scope till the markers on the setting circles line up again,
Sig Oct should be in the Eyepiece, and if not, easily in the finder.
Just centre and hit enter and its done.
Now the caveat
The calibrate sensor data is ONLY used to get you close to the first align star,
after that, its ignored.
If you can manually see/identify a few bright stars, you can just do a manual 2 star align and totally bypass the auto aligning dance.
Saves heaps of time and wear on the gears.
Andrew
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