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Old 30-09-2018, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by RickS View Post
I have been using the PhD2 Polar Drift Alignment wizard and a guide camera to set up my Star Adventurer at home every night. It works a treat even though Sigma Octans is behind a tree. Only takes a few minutes to get alignment good enough for unguided subs of a few minutes. The alignment is based on analysing the drift of a star near the pole - it's not "conventional" drift alignment.



Pic attached. I have the guide camera mounted on a ball head attached to the bottom half of the Star Adventurer dovetail bar, balancing the weight of the main camera and lens.
Rick, is that "Polar Drift Align" just under "Drift Align" in the Tools menu?
(Thought you still needed to be quite close to the pool to use that?)
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