My EQ6 with v301 synscan has been working rather well until last night.
It is pier mounted and would characteristically go straight to target even without an alignment cycle; well ok not dead center, but within EP fov.
Last night it insisted that Sirius lives in the far south west of Sydney skies.
I had never used the show position function before, however I now notice that I get 2 lines of info on the screen, including after a 'park' operation.
top line reads something like 20h 30', +90. The second line reads 360d -90
It can't be both + and - declination!
Is it normal for the position display to have 2 lines, any body know?
The book of words indicated that powering off without park would loose setup data, ie reset memory, but it will not loose the date lat, longitude time zone. Date does not increment of course since time is not kept after powerdown. It simply refuses to look in the right part of the sky anymore.
Remember this was functioning correctly and yes the Longitude is set to E,
Lat set to S Time zone +10 and I use sidereal time not DST. besides I doubt if any error in setup parameters could put Sirius in the wrong quadrant of the sky.
Another anomaly is that Sirius has disappeared from the list of star names, except in the alignment mode, in other words, I can not select Sirius as an object to view.
Just wondering if anyone has encountered this problem or if it is known if there is a 'Ctrl Alt Del' style powerup reset available, if not, then it looks like it will have to go back to Tasco Hospital.
