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[Melachrino2020]

After many weeks of cold, bad weather, starting and initializing the Meade Autostar in my LX90 8" system, the Azimuth GOTO is off by 180 degrees.

Scope has not moved location, and no update or modification has been done to the system since it was performing adequately before now.

Checked initialization entries, calibrated motors. Did not help.

Any suggestion before attempting a reset ?

Thanks.

[kgb]

You checked your latitude longitude ?

[michael8554]

Please post your setting up routine:

 

Control panel facing south

OTA pointing north.

Enter time and date

What kind of Star Alignment ?

 

Unless you're in the southern hemisphere ?

[Melachrino2020]

Rechecking the well known and standard initialization process for my Meade 497  Autostar, there were no entries that were incorrect.

Therefore, it would appear that even though the initialization readout was correct, then it most likely meant that a crucial memory location had somehow been corrupted.

I had run into this type of situation in my former life, so I resorted to the recommended RESET option, which would hopefully clear first the erroneous memory location and allow a correct entry to be saved instead.

Which is what happened. The LX90 now points in the correct direction. Hope this helps others.

Thanks for the suggestions.