Check to see if you have update the new GMT offset, it should be at +7.
If this is incorrect that may answer some of your questions.

john
Willard Observatory
http://members.aol.com/rlecker/optas.html

>In a message dated 98-04-25 23:47:59 EDT, you write:
>
><< I am so frustrated! Last night, I did my normal 2 star alignment,
>but
> without exact leveling. One star was Arcturus, the either Castor A.
>Well,
> after alignment, I selected Star, Name, Pollux, Enter, Goto, and the
>damned
> scope missed by enough that I had trouble seeing Pollux in the finder
>scope.
> Through the entire session, I relied on a good chart and my finder
>only.
> Every time I tried to goto something, the scope missed by a huge
>(amazingly
> huge) margin. Never happened before.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Is leveling *that* important?
>
> -- Mike Berlyn, frustrated in Oregon >>
>
>The few times that happened to me, it usually turned out that I had
>run into
>"dec cord strangulation" yanking on the scope at some point, bumped a
>tripod
>leg, or something like that.
>
>I'm not saying it's always "pilot error" but it usually is for me.
>
>John Hopper
>

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