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Old 04-11-2013, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by chiaroscuro View Post
Hi Kosh,
Thanks for that info. How do you know how much to adjust the alt/az knobs given that the setting circles don't have the precision to do this to that degree of accuracy?
Yeah the assisted polar alignment and PAE functions aren't the same.

With the align->polar function it slews away from a star of your choice and then you adjust the alt and az bolts to centre the star again. You need to re-run the star alignment after this procedure. Using this at the weekend I reduced my azimuth error from 10 degrees to a little more than half in the first iteration. Plenty good enough for visual and the gotos were good all night with my cat, as they should be!
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