Celestron NexStar 127SLT remember time?

[GarageYears]

Hi All ,

Very new to this, so let’s start with a simple question. Do I need to enter the time EVERY time I power-on the mount? I see it remembers my lat/long. But so far the time and date has been wrong - it comes up at the previous time/date used, which seems useless and annoying. 
 

Thanks - GY

[michael8554]

I believe any mount without a GPS unit will require you to enter time and date.

I'm more familiar with Meade mounts and that's the case for all the non-GPS mounts.

You can probably buy a plug-in GPS for your mount, but the manual method takes less than a minute.

Michael

[Peter Drew]

Yes,  you do have to enter the time and date for the NexStar system before the mount will track.  It doesn't need to be super accurate just to track but if you need the goto function then the more accurate the better.   🙂

[GarageYears]

Excellent - ok, just wanted to be sure I hadn’t missed something. Will be looking for a GPS add-on shortly!