"JD" wrote in message
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I bought an ETX105 a year ago, and had similar problems to yourself.
1. Have you entered.... and decided whether.... you do need to
accurately
level.... and start off with it pointing..... tried using a
compass....was OK
only occasionally....

You now, dinking with GoTo scopes seems like so much BS. The simple made
complex. Features we don't 'really' need just because the chip can handle
the code. Dependence on batteries and stepper motors just to move the
tube... aaaarrrgh! Tried it for a year and went back to manual, astronomy
is FUN again.

I also have a 200mm f5 Dob and I use whichever is most useful for what I
want to view. But, without having started with my ETX and learnt my way
around a bit (in the light polluted skies of Milton Keynes!) I certainly
wouldn't have bought the Dob.
And two nights ago I was taking photos of Comet Machholtz and the Pleiades
using an 85mm lens on my EOS10D - no telescope in sight.

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm