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Hi, thanks for your replies, so I guess I'll just use the included motor. By the way if you don't use the knobs, how do you find stars? 

Hi, I don't have the original papers, but I believe it's an Alstar Ret 52. In the manual it comes like this (you can see the RA slow mo is on the right), but I've seen some photos online where the dec slow mo is on the front, and thus th RA on te right is that how it's supposed to be?

Hi, I'm 100% new to astronomy, and I'm using a 7 year old eq2-mount telescope. After a few nights of awkwardly using the RA wheel I have to ask, aren't the RA slow motion controls on the opposite side to the eyepiece? How am I supposed to use them? Do I have to hug the telescope, or put the finder in the bottom? I also don't understand why one of the knobs' dial doesn't move when I move it around. Thank you very much, all help is appreciated. By the way there's a PDF by skywatchers I think, and that's all that came in the box as an instruction manual, the illustration is pretty accurate, my telescope is a reflective telescope