I purchased this one from the US secondhand and not sure it there are any settings I need to be mindful of from the Northern Hemisphere (although have changed the location already). The motors just do not seem to track and was told this is a runaway problem and common to ETX105s. Have also set up in home position in the presence of more experienced astronomers than I and they seem to think the same thing. The autostar does respond and get the drives to slew ok. Was running on batteries but now on power and still the same issue.:confused2: The star is found and then just goes quickly out of view. The issue is I can perform the two star easy alignment, have checked location details and trained the drive motors and it will not track a star with the Autostar 497 controller. I recently took my telescope to an astronomy club scope school to see if I can get my scope checked out.
