I took over

They couldn't find objects. And they were not sure that the Telrad was aligned. They were getting drifting. They kept backing up and redoing steps. And rather than focus on the task at hand, Manuel continued to try to teach and guide Kiron on how to set up his mount and telescope.

All the while, I just watched. I don't know everything and all things about astronomy and telescopes but I was biting my tongue. Manuel with peculiar techniques and Kiron with no Celestron GOTO mount experience. I couldn't help think it was the blind leading the blind. I was particularly surprised (as was Kiron) when Manuel kept insisting that we target an object with the controller, then adjust the Telrad to be centred on the object, and then we'd be fine and the telescope itself would be aligned. It'd didn't make sense.

After about the third try of not being able to find anything successfully, with a dash of exasperation, they paused, not sure what to do. I asked, "May I?" They let me at the 'scope.

I rebooted the mount, I entered the exact date and time. I requested the exact latitude and longitude from Manuel but he didn't know it and he couldn't figure it out from Google Maps. I took the opportunity, now that Jupiter was up, to align the Telrad and the telescope. Then I returned to the hand controller and did a two-star alignment. And we were up and running.

I'm going to have to do something to clarify all this for Manuel. He's got some kooky ideas.