Hello,
I´ve tried a first light this last weekend with my recently purchased AZ-Gti. To get it short I was unsuccessfull. I couldn´t point to where I wanted it to be.
I did not tried the North alignment. Just tried Two Bright stars method. I was using a Canon 7D Mark II seated on a L Bracket with my trusty Canon EF 300mm IS L lens.
I did connected the camera to the notebook running Astrophotography Tools software. Every thing looked right and I did use planets Saturn and Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, and couple of tries with a planet and a star such as Saturn and Vega or Saturn and Arcturus.
In APT I had double crosshairs on screen and zoom +10 to get a very precise centering on screen. On all occasions I got confirmation that alignement was successfull. And I´ve tried M8 and M20 and did not get any closer. It was pointing way high than the objects I have selected.
I checked GPS on my IPAD (where I was running Synscan APP) and it was showing a different reading in longitude than the Compass app, or Google maps on my smartphone. I couldn´t figure out the reason for that. But next time I´ll try to input coordinates by hand too.
Let´s see if tracking improve from there.
Regards,
Henrique
Itapevi, SP
Brazil.