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Originally Posted by redbeard
2. When the above is done and some stars are in the sky, you start Alignmaster and PHD so you can see the stars in your camera view, pick a set of stars from the list and MANUALLY slew with your
hand controller to the first star. Once you have centred that star in the PHD software, (use the bulls eye overlay in PHD to help get it centred), press the next button and Alignmaster will ask
you to slew to the second star. Do this with your hand controller and again centre this star. Make sure you know your stars and are pointing at exactly the correct stars or all will fail. It is
easy to find the wrong star in the sky, (I do that from time to time, and you will get big errors).
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With my heq5 pro you can simply click the GOTO button in alignmaster and it will roughly place the first star in the reticule, depending on your rough alignment of course. Then for the second star you click the GOTO button again, this eliminates the need to manually slew to any stars. You do need to turn EQmod to Dialogue based instead of append on sync though.