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Polar Alignment
Hello, I’m new to this hobby and have lots of questions. I have been mainly doing visual but would like to consider doing some astrophotography. But my first problem is polar alignment. I have read a few suggestions here. I have a skywatcher EQ6R and have been trying the synscan polar alignment method. I was able to get to 30 seconds error in both alt and azimuth early in the evening using Hadar (polar alignment star) and miaplacidus. Beginner’s luck. Later in the evening I used atria (polar alignment star) and Hadar and wasn’t able to get better than 1 min 30 sec error in either alt or azimuth after multiple tries. Every time I went back to the alignment star atria, the star was already centred and I could not make further adjustments to alt or azimuth . I can only see the southwest quarter of the sky from where I set up. Is this the best I can do or am I making mistakes? Do I need to update the synscan firmware? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Rob.
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