Celestron Cg-5GT alignment issues

[Taxikab96]

Hey!

I have a problem with my Cg-5. After I polar align it and try to align it to a star, it slews to a completely different location (at least 90 degrees in another direction) I'm sure I have all of the information in there correctly, and I've reset the hand controller. Any help is appreciated!

[Grotemobile]

All I ever used to do with mine

was point the mount north & do

a planetry align.Could never

sort out what star was what.

Saturn is what I use at the

moment.Give this a try.

Make sure the mount is level.

Steve

[Cornelius Varley]

The obvious things to check are

1. the correct coorodinates. The centre of Sacramento is 121 30 W , 38 35 N, so yours should be similar

2. The correct time zone (-8.00 I think)

3  DST on

4 Starting from the correct home position.

[hobsey]

I have to say, I've never got my CG5 to align properly.

Like Steve, I only do planetary alignment now which really isn't helpful when there isn't any around.

[Grotemobile]

I have to say, I've never got my CG5 to align properly.

 

Like Steve, I only do planetary alignment now which really isn't helpful when there isn't any around.

 

I then do a sync, on the planet

I have picked.Seems to work very

well for me.It tracks quite well

using this method as well.

Steve

[ronin]

Couple of thopughts:

Going about 90 degrees the wrong direction half suggests that there may be a Northern/Southern Hemisphere option somewhere in the menu. Check Menu -> Tracking -> Mode for EQ North. Just in case.

The manual says that the mount will select from one side of the meridian only. Not 100% sure the relevanxce of this unless a house is on one side I suppose.

Have you polar aligned and set the RA and Dec index marks as required.

Has it got the GPS feature ?

[Grotemobile]

On the handset you can select

East, West or off.This I think

is done by pressing the menu

button on the handset.It looks

like it is set to go the wrong way.

Steve

[Taxikab96]

Thank you very much for the replies. I will try these suggestions out tonight to see if any helped. It seemed as if the declination turns the correct distance it needs to go, but in the opposite way.