I have revised Messier and Caldwell bright reference star slew tables in a 2008 personal amateur project titled "Manual Setting Circles - Basic Use" to better support GOTO slewing in Meade and Celestron handcontrollers. Manual Setting Circles - Basic Use http://fisherka.csolutionshosting.net/astronote/plan/mansetcir/ManSettingCir... In aid of computerized GOTO small scopes, some of the tables include for bright reference stars, the identification cross-reference numbers to the HD and SAO catalogues. HD (Meade) and SAO (Celestron) handcontrollers typically contain one or both of these stellar catalogues. For GOTO resynching of a hand-controller, the table titled "Messier and Caldwell list slews from bright stars above -38° dec by Messier Caldwell number" is helpful. With this list, the telescope user can slew to the nearest bright star to the object, resynchronize their GOTO controller to that bright star and then slew the few remaining degrees to the faint object. Resynchronization of the hand-controller allows for high-accuracy slewing, in particular, for urban and suburban light polluted skies. Some astronomical planning software, like AstroPlanner, build in intermediate bright star slewing utilities that automate the resynchronization process. Table: Messier and Caldwell list slews from bright stars above -38° dec by Messier Caldwell number http://fisherka.csolutionshosting.net/astronote/plan/mansetcir/html/MessierS... Clear Skies - Kurt