Follow-up information from my post the other day

In that post, linked here:

[https://www.reddit.com/r/telescopes/s/WPPy5p2l3D](https://www.reddit.com/r/telescopes/s/WPPy5p2l3D)

I posted a comment with some extra information that went mostly unnoticed. It contained a few more questions and the primary issue I’ve been having, namely my alignment. Give that post a read through and either reply to my comment or come back to this post.

“Extra information:

Every time when I try to align my telescope using the hand controller, it’s always off by some margin. I’ve read the manual about using sky align and picking three stars 60° apart in the sky and approaching them from the same direction but that doesn’t seem to get it spot on. I input my coordinates correctly but because it doesn’t let me input decimals it never goes directly to something. The “precise go-to” feature also doesn’t work properly when I put in RA and declination. I’m hoping the GPS module will help with this.

On celestron’s website it says that I need an RS-232 port to connect the hand controller to my computer. Only issue is, what kind of a laptop has a serial port nowadays?! If I just get any old USB-A to female serial, will that allow me to connect the starry night software and be more accurate?”