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Old 12-08-2013, 02:32 PM
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OzEclipse (Joe Cali)
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Yes it looks like the bright star above the nebula is your autoguide star. You can get field rotation whenever the Earth's rotational axis and the telescope polar axis don't point in the same direction. It's just that an alt az mount is an extreme example of this effect but it can happen with a GEM. That's why they have to be precisely polar aligned even when you have an autoguider.

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