StarTarg

[Rigel003 (Graeme)]

Has anyone used this?

http://www.andysshotglass.com/StarTarg.html

Small utility that projects a reticle and timer onto your screen over the top of any running program. An aid to quicker drift alignment over a live display from a webcam. At $15US it's inexpensive enough to tempt me to try it.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

well if it only projects a cross hair you are better off with K3CCD or Guidedog or such. Still that program looks like it would help. Wouldn't hurt to try.

[joe_smith]

here is a simple one I made up you might like to try two types

http://southcelestialpole.org.au/for...9.0;attach=597

http://southcelestialpole.org.au/for...9.0;attach=589

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Hey Joe any way of doing the double cross hair? I was looking for those things the other day, but couldn't find them, should have asked hey LOL.

[Rigel003 (Graeme)]

Thanks, Joe. I'll give them a try. In the meantime I've discovered WCS http://wcs.ruthner.at/index-en.htm which was recommended in another thread. More expensive but it tells you exactly how much to adjust your azimuth or altitude in a single step. Sounds like a great time saver - I've been taking 30 - 60 minutes to get really good alignment eyeballing through a reticle eyepiece.

[allan gould]

also Guidemaster by Matthias G will also help polar align.... see this thread http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=19750
And its FREE