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Hi again guys. I've been digging a bit more into this. Apparently All Star Polar Alignment is not currently working in the southern hemisphere.
Bummer really. They shouldn't advertise this mount as fit for astrophotography when you can't polar align it (at least with the included tools - the hand control).
That being said, can anyone suggest any other efficient polar alignment method?
I've bee trying to use the iterative polar alignment tool in Astroplanner. I tried it a bit last night after some observing. I didn't take any pictures though. But as its name suggests, it is iterative. So it takes quite a bit of time...
Oh and after getting it really close to alignment (or so Astroplanner said), I reset the mount and tried another sky alignment from scratch. However, I noticed initial estimations were off, much more so than before. So my second question is, aren't these estimations supposed to become better when the mount is polar aligned? Does this mean that while I thought I was aligning I was actually doing the opposite?
Thanks!
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