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Originally Posted by LewisM
I dunno, been using a bog-standard Silva for years (I am ALWAYS portable - nothing permanent). I use the iPhone compass occasionally too. I then polar align with SharpCap, and always have it in the "Excellent" range within 5 minutes without any problem.
I stand about a metre behind the mount, eyeballing it along the RA axis. I don't go to close to the mount at all, and always have the mount OFF and no EM sources around whilst doing this rough setup.
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Up my way, out on the back ridge we were lucky to get back before dark the first time we took a compass ..so far out ..but apparently there is a lot of iron stone out there which I was told caused the problem..but I dont know ..lucky we picked up the one and only fence line and followed it back to the road and walked down the road to get home ..added about five k but better than wandering around lost all night...as soon as the Sun sets that bush is like another world, even in familiar tracks you feel lost...thats why we took a compass..
Alex