Theoretical alignment question....

[cmassa]

If the mount was precisely polar aligned, had accurate time and GPS coordinates entered, and the mount centered to the marks, shouldn't GOTO alignment be accurate without further alignment routines? Just thinking out loud.

Chris

[KathyNS]

Yes. But this is the real world, where some of those "if"s are likely to be false. In particular, polar alignment and setting the mount in the home position are analog processes done by human eye. Hence the need for goto alignment.