Chris1234

Hello all, I have recently gotten into star gazing and have a NexStar 127 SLT. I have used it only a few times due too lack of availability. However that quickly changed with the pandemic. I use sky align to align it properly, yes it takes a while to get it set up but once it does it is amazing. These last few weeks however have proved difficult, according to the telescope I can correctly align everything with no problems. However I wasn't able to see anything when I pointed to an object that the telescope pointed itself to after I made a selection on the keypad. After about 3 tries I attempted to just point it at the moon just to see if it was working, but it pointed completely straight up when the moon was obviously not there(on a night with a full moon it was near the horizon). I now have know idea what could be causing the problem because I had set it up just like I did before with the same location and it worked then but not now. The only thing I can think of is possibly the alignment scope not being aligned with the telescope itself. I then thought that it still shouldn't have such a drastic change in the direction it points. Wouldn't mind a few suggestions, looks like it will be cloudy for the next week or so to give me time to fix this. Thanks.