ETX question

I have inherited an ETX 90 with autostar from a relative who has upgraded. I'm having fun playing with it and I've read lots of stuff about using it on the web but....

After spending time calibrating, setting it up pointing north, horizontal and putting in accurate location and time, when I do an
align the target is never in the eyepiece and is well off in the finder (some times not in).
After aligning it the target is again almost never in the eyepiece but usually reasonably close to the finder center - usually within 1/3 of the field of view of the center.

Is this as good as it gets in terms of goto accuracy?
mikej
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