well tonight i tried to drift align = its been so long, work , cloud, life..... what a horrendous evening
i was out by heaps - so much so i think i have made a grave error in the setup from scratch and i no longer have any adjustment left so have to pull it all down and try again
so i rechecked the magnetic declination
Latitude: 32° S
Longitude: 151° E
Magnetic declination: +12° 21'
Declination is POSITIVE (EAST)
Inclination: 63° 17'
Magnetic field strength: 56463.3 nT
then something dawned on me I may have adjusted the whole mount the wrong way from the start, i think i am pointing so far to the east that i stuffed up. I will pull everything down and redo it from scratch
I really think the little electrical wires behind us affected both my compass and the gps phone compass
so what i think i have done is adjust to the east by 12 degrees then done it again by a similar amount by accident then bolted everything together. there is no limits to my stupidity
i should have gone the other way
