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Skywatcher AZ EQ 6 GT Mount. Weirdness
I have a Skywatcher AZ EQ 6 GT permanently mounted on a pier and I started it up tonight after a hiatus of a month or so. I usually skip the alignment as it hasn't moved since the last one and re do it every couple of months. It is due for one now. Anyway, I had a guest who wanted to see Saturn so I skipped the alignment and just told it to go to Saturn. The scope then motored away happily but ended up pointing due south at the horizon.
A long way from the ecliptic. I thought I'd accidently changed the Lat/Long or something.
So I rebooted the mount, triple checked the settings and the time was correct to the second and tried again.
Same result. Due South.
I then decided to do the alignment so I rebooted.
Then came the true weirdness.
The handset display gave me an option I had never seen before. Choose a bright star in the north. south, east or west. I chose South and then A Cent. and motored the scope to it. Hit ENTER then chose Arcturus as the second star. At this point the scope did something it has never done in a decade of being bolted to that pier, it jammed itself against the pier.
I turned the power off and resolved to look at the thing in the daylight.
But why is that new option there? It was always choose 1 2 or 3 star alignment and that was it. I haven't updated the firmware for 5 years. So it isn't that.
Any clues on what I have done wrong appreciated. Thanks.
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