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Thanks all
Just finished some imaging of Jupiter and the Moon tonight
Chose Rigel Kent and Spica for the 2 Star alignment ( about 90 deg apart in Az ) only required 2 iterations to get alignment error down to 2 arc minutes with a 20mm illuminated reticle and 2x powermate.
After imaging Jupiter and the moon, tried finding a few DSO’s. Pointing accuracy very good , landed Omega Centauri just off centre of my DSLR display on live view.
I will now use alignment stars at least 60 deg apart as proven tonight by your advice and comments
Also polar alignment using the Synscan PA procedure only took 2 iterations with hand controller reading a PA error of 000.00’00” Mel and 000.00’00” Maz This usually gets you polar aligned to around 1 arc minute or so as I was starting to get elongated stars from 80 sec exposures onwards
It was a good night !!
Thanks again !
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