I've been looking at the Orion Tele Track mount as fairly attractive for mounting my PST. However, it does not have the sun in it's database as an alignment object. Here is the reply from Orion tech personnel, to my question of using the sun as an alignment object: *"Dear Chuck: Thank you for contacting Orion. We have customers who have said they have use a PST on the TeleTrack GoTo mount. They aligned on an object near the sun and then used the controller to slew the scope to the sun by hand. I believe that the TeleTrack would be tracking at sidereal rate and not solar rate. The sun is not an alignment object."* Ok, ok, an object near the sun? That means what, Venus or the moon? And if neither is near the sun? But then this solution occured to me, and it's an absurdly easy work-around for no sun in your alignment object database: *Using your planetarium software, or just some careful plotting on your paper atlas, find an object in the database that the sun is currently either very near, or actually in front of. Then just aim at the sun manually and tell the GoTo that you are syncing on that object. * ** The lack of a solar tracking rate shouldn't be a problem for low and medium power visual solar viewing, or even the type of imaging we are likely to do with the PST.