My telescope is slewing the wrong way

[Tim Jennings]

Hi everyone 

Can anyone help me please. I have  just got a new mount, a Celestron avx I put in the date, time and city which is London, but  it didn't ask for the Latitude or the Longitude ever. I'm also  using a asiair mini, so is the mount using the latitude and longitude from the asiair. Then it asked me to do a star alignment that's when the problem started one of the stars I know which was Capella this star came up as one of the alignment stars, so it told me to press enter which I did it started to slew, but the wrong way, it was slewing to  the west all the time.

 

  Tim

[Bugdozer]

Did you put the date in American format? My Celestron requires this and it seems to catch a lot of people out.

[Elp]

If you're using an Asiair to control the setup you don't do a star alignment, you polar align using the asiair app and control everything within the app. The asiair takes your location settings from your controlling device but your settings still have to be correct on your hand controller including time in UTC time format.

Edited November 7, 2023 by Elp

[Franklin]

Advanced_VX-Manual.indd

[apaulo]

The first time out with my avx i had the same problem. It was a simple fix make sure you enter the date,  month first then day and year i put the date in uk style. worse still was, i knew about the date , but by habit i still put it in wrong. 

[Cosmic Geoff]

Get it working first without the Asiair, then try using the Asiair later.

The mount will not ask for a Lat/Long if you have given a city ( London) as the location. It probably defaults to city, but you can change it in the menus.

[Tim Jennings]

Will try tonight in changing the date round and see what happens thanks again for   all your help  most appreciated thanks. 

  Tim

[michael8554]

If you had entered 7th Nov in US format that would come out as July 10th.

At  2100 on that date Capella would be about 10 degrees EAST of north.

Is that about where the mount slewed to from the usual pointing north start position ?

Michael