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Originally Posted by Astro_Bot
Firstly, I haven't used the SynScan polar alignment feature yet, so bear with me, but ...
PAE is Pointing Accuracy Enhancement, and it sounds like it's behaving correctly from Lewis's description.
Polar Align is a different feature altogether - it's accessed from the Setup menu, whereas PAE is accessed from the Utility Func. menu.
Could it be as simple as that?
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Sounds like it is, just a little PA vs PAE confusion. PAE does indeed work like that. And yes, it works well, too, although I haven't found exactly how big around the PAE star the effective radius is. All the manual tells is that there are some 80+ PAE regions.
PAE has bugs, but they don't seem to interfere with its function when ignored. For some objects, after calling up the PAE function, it doesn't show the object's name. For some other objects (esp some SAO stars) it shows the name of an IC object (always the same IC number, forgot which one).
Cheers
Steffen.