PatrickC

Thank you all for your replies. They have helped! I do have mixed feelings about this CEM70 mount. On opening the box I was greeted by the warning sheet to read the Quick Start Guide. No Quick Start Guide in the box! Its listed in the contents, in the Quick Start Guide that I had downloaded, but its not in the box. The PE graph looks as if it has been retrieved from the office waste paper bin. Several times. The Go2Nova hand controller in the box is not the one described in the manual, Quick Start or full. On switch on, powered by the supplied 'brick', the Go2Nova lights up, beeps, and goes out. 2 seconds later, it lights up, beeps, and goes out. And repeats, and repeats ------- Connect it to a 12V battery and it stays on - - Go2Nova can actually make the mount do things! Not much works correctly until I stoke up the courage to upgrade firmware. The instructions in the manual do not apply to the supplied model of Go2Nova! I could go on. But, by luck and guesswork, I am making progress. I have even got it to (reluctantly) talk to PHD2 and even (reluctantly) actually autoguide! I've got it to talk to CdC - not properly (I've not used CdC before) but not to Stellarium (my preferred). 3 star align shows no sign of working. Its keeping me busy. I'm making progress, I think. I might even get it to work! Thank you!

Just taken delivery and trying to learn! Manual says that to do, say, 3 star alignment, must start at Zero position. I do 'Go to Zero' - but Alignment menu only shows two entries for Polaris. I do 'Search for Zero' - still only two entries I do 'Set Zero Position' (Surely it must be at Zero now??) - still only two entries What am I doing wrong - or not doing?? TIA Patrick