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Originally Posted by The_bluester
If you can afford one a Polemaster camera is a great tool and time saver.
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I'm an absolute novice at this. I'm greener than green, but can confirm, I managed to polar align my astrotrac last night using a Polemaster, and it was quick! I was so impressed.
My initial run (20mins) didn't go well because I don't know what the stars should look like in that part of the sky.
So I ran Stellarium, added the Polemaster to the camera/telescope setup and then aimed the program at Sigma Octantis. This gave me a pattern I could search for in the Polemaster, which only took 30 seconds to find once I had a working pattern to compare against. The polar aligning was done a few minutes after I found the star. Really easy.