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I received my first telescope as a gift this past Christmas (an Orion 130ST). From my understanding, it is pretty good for a starter scope and I'm having a lot of fun with it. It's on an equatorial mount, which I think I have mostly figured out. Only problem is that I need to set the latitude adjustment way higher than I should to get it polar aligned, like 10 degrees higher. Obviously, I'm new to all this, so I don't know enough to know if this is a problem or not. Anyway, I tried to get my question answered through Orion tech support. Can someone explain what I'm missing?

Here is the exchange:

Me: I recently received the 130ST as a gift, and so far I love it. However, I'm havi

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