HELP! Auto Star Mumbo jumbo #*%

Can anyone direct myself a another friend who have purchased MEADE's ETX's (125mm) with the go-to Auto star. We rattled our sense's till it got too cold last night not getting past 2005.... is there a self help site that can be of some logical assistance? JM in the dark

John, I have an ETX60 and I really like it.
If you have specific questions, I'll be glad to assist as I can.
My autostar works perfectly. I can go to anything dead on with it, although when I get there I can't always see very much with that little 60mm aperture. You can do much better!
My local club helped me with some basic problems I was having. You have to enter the exact longitute and latitude for where you are viewing. You have to be perfectly level to start with. You have to know the stars well enough to align to them using the hand controler. But after you do that, you will be very pleased, I think.
Let me know if I can help.
Bob

The Autostar is pretty self-explantory and works extremely well. Have you followed the instructions in the manual concerning calibrating and training?. Essentially you go to the "setup" menu entry and then the "telescope" menu entry. from that menu choose "calibrate". The scope will run it's motors to make sure it can sense change. The pick a distant target and point the scope at it. Choose the "train" menu entry and "train" each axis. At night level both the mount and tube, after pointing the scope mostly north. Start the autostar and choose easy align. After that you can spend your time looking at objects in the sky rather than spending four or five hours trying to find the "house with broken roof" or a "klingon battlecruiser" so that you can find just one object. Don't pay any attention to those who spread Fear, Uncertaintity and Doubt (FUD) that you aren't really an amateur astronomer unless you have a dob and spend you time starhopping.

Thanks to all, will try all suggestions.. JM