Phil: I actually did get the Polar Finder app for Android.. but it wasn't much help. I couldn't really find Octans (newb) an in the end I figured I'd just completely manually trial and error it!
Ross: Thanks very much! Just wanted to fill frame as much as I could before the image quality failed and the detail- there's never really enough is there?
Stacy: Thanks! It took a lot of fiddling around to get anything remotely usable. I'll admit there were times I thought I'd just have to give up and the sounds of what sounded like a boar in the bushes in the middle of nowhere out west did not help! I'm still hoping to get 560mm or 800mm with extenders, but given how long the exposure times will be, I hope I'm not being foolishly optimistic!
Andy: I gave up on the polar scope eventually, and it became a case of move it a little to the right, a little to the right, a little to the right, too much! A little to the left, a little to the left etc. Drove me bonkers. At some point, I was noticing the stars doing little wiggles too, that didn't help my confidence. Eventually something worked though, but it was very very hit and miss! I'll definitely try some minute-long exposures at some point, maybe with longer than 400mm, but I'm anticipating hours more of setup work just to polar align it.