Evening again
Well, I'm writing this after all day in glorious clear sunshine, but now waiting for the clouds and slight rain that appeared at 9.15 to clear up
Couple of points. Understand your concern on wild slewing. I'm never more than a few feet from the scope now. That said, I had another perfect night of viewing last night; telescope never once lost control in 90 minutes.
Your tablet may have 'haptic feedback' switched off. My directional arrows do give me feedback when I touch them.
As for 'tonight's best', I think this is a one-size fits all list, that depending on your location may include objects that are still below the horizon. I always check the altitude and rise time before I click on them. Objects may not rising until later in the night.
And I have adjusted the main tube so it can point up to the zenith without the eye piece touching the base. I did this after the app was trying to turn my scope upside down before the GPS on the handset had been set. So as the eyepiece cannot hit the base, so I can relax a little more. Obviously this set up means the front of the OTA would hit the base if it slewed down, but as the OTA should never go below the horizon, you can move quickly to stop this if it starts to do that.
Finally, the horizon on the app is one of three 'views'. It defaults to Ularu (aka Ayers Rock in Oz); the other two options are a city scape or the top of Mouna Kea in Hawaii. Unbelievably, the mountains, buildings or the observatories on all three views actually block the view and names of low-level stars. They actually wrote the app so their fake horizon views take priority over the stars, and have no option to have a simple flat horizon. So if you have perfect horizon views, but they have a picture of a building or a mountain, you can't see the star or goto it. So I'll say it again, how stupid are the developers that wrote this app?
Righto; of to hunt clear skies. Will report back in a few days / weeks, but for now the wifi is working fine.
Happy Transitting tomorrow
Ian