Anyone used Astroplanner for polar alignment?

[troypiggo]

I just stumbled across the alignment feature of Astroplanner (v2 beta). In the "Telescope" menu there's a "1-star Polar Alignment", "Iterative Polar Alignment", and a "Polar Drift Alignment Helper".

Upon seeing the iterative polar alignment part, I couldn't help but recall Allan's recent "Get polar aligned in minutes" thread for Alignmaster (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=46091&highlight=alignmaster). Looks very similar to my noobish understanding.

Anyone tried it?

[peter_4059]

I've had a look at it but think it is a different approach to alignmaster

[rider]

hi t-p-o
Where did you get the Beta version?
Ive seen no updates on either of the astroplanner related sites lately.
I'm still on 1.6

[troypiggo]

http://www.astroplanner.net/alphabeta/

It's still a little buggy, but Paul does actively correct bug reports and feature requests.

v2 does add some handy new features. Suggest you keep both versions installed "just in case".

[tonybarry]

I'll second that. Paul Rodman is very proactive about fixing bugs (and adding sensible feature requests).

I use v1.6 and the v2 beta and find it very helpful. When v2 does come out in final candidate, it will be a seriously good bit of gear.

Regards,
Tony Barry

[rider]

Thanks people, I'll give it a go, but also keep the old one.

[troypiggo]

By default it installs itself in a different directory anyway. v1.6 was something like c:\astroplanner, but v2b is c:\program files\astroplanner I think. So keeping them separate is not too hard, and they're different icons too so easy to distinguish them.