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Hi Rob
Yes the illuminated reticle eye piece is a great tool to improve your alignment centering accuracy
If your going to image with a DSLR ( Canon or Nikon ) can I strongly recommend using BYEOS or BYNIKON
It’s a tremendous frame , focus and capture software ( includes Planetary imaging as well ) it also have a drift alignment tool for PA which I use inconjunction with the Synscan ( no more bending my head over an eye piece ), I just sit at my laptop 1.5m away and carry out my Synscan Star and PA alignment with less iterations and more accuracy than the illuminated reticle could ever do. I only get up off my stool to tweak the Alt and Az bolts , with the laptop screen live view only 1.5m away , so easy and comfortable
The accuracy is improved because you can 3 x zoom the Star plus defocus your Alignment stars and PA star into a small donut and really nail the alignment with great accuracy
I’m usually Polar Aligned with 2 or 3 iterations in about 10 minutes
Glad your achieving some tighter PA now
All the best
Martin
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