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Old 23-11-2014, 09:08 AM
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With some practice I now find using the polar scope on my NEQ6 quicker than using PhD drift align, it only take a few minutes. It's accurate enough alignment for guiding. After dark adpating, I can just about see 2-3 of the stars of the asterism in the polar scope. I have quite a lot of light pollution - can only see washed out Milky Way near overhead, and can't see any asterism stars with naked eye.

It's very helpful though to be able to get the mount close to the same position each night. I have three small holes in the lawn. When I drop the mount into these holes I can see the asterism stars in the polar scope straight away. If you are 5 degrees away to start with, star hopping in Octans with the polar scope to the asterism would probably be too much effort.
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