Don't worry about dragging this out we will get to the bottom of it!First off, I appreciate you taking the time to help me work through this...
See screenshots. It's near the SCT crosshairs, but not close enough to been seen in the SXT.
Another learning opportunity for me.... before the PAD and P30 target load, the DAP is set at 21111, 11111 and the gimbal angles are -00135 and +00133.
The PAD gimbal angles are +00105 and -00023.
I tried this a couple of ways. First I left the V48 gimbal angles as they were, then ran through the P30, started P40 then exited with P00, ran P52 opt 1, V49 to the burn attitude (PAD 000/356/001) then V41N91. The SXTS looked like the photos.
The second time, I did the uplink, then changed the V48 to 21102, 01111 and changed the gimbals to the PAD angles +00105 and -00023. Then I ran P30, started P40 exiting with P00, P52 opt 1, then V49 to the burn attitude. The SXTS star looked slightly closer to the center of the SCT but still not visible in the SXT.
I'm doing these about 50 minutes before the burn, but even if I wait until 30 minutes before the burn the star is not visible in the SXT.
"manually maneuver" to what? Do I need to have a star centered in the SCT crosshairs? Or just visible in the SCT? After I choose a star and manually enter it, what maneuvering do I do before I choose and manually enter the second star? When I start over with the V32, do I maneuver again to a totally different set of stars? We go through this three times, and this confusion on my part is why I'm eating up so much time.
And will this alignment check correct what looks like an incorrect alignment?
Apologies for dragging this out, but I'd like to try and understand what I'm doing wrong.
The alignment check you are to manually maneuver the spacecraft to have a star in the telescope, then you select that star in the DSKY and let the optics drive to that star, and you repeat this a few times without torqueing the IMU.
I have pasted the procedure and the P52 steps from Apollo 9 maybe it will help clarify things?
For your sextant star check, its possible you have a bad alignment or your P30 REFSMMAT doesn't quite line up with the pad one. I will run the last save you shared and see what it looks like (assuming that's the alignment you had where it didn't line up.)