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Old 22-01-2014, 02:56 PM
guggle (Michael)
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Originally Posted by kosh View Post
After using the polar alignment utility, I usually do another two-star align ( or three-star if you prefer ). This will give me the new error amount. It will be lower than before.
Then I go back to utilities/polar align again, choose a star to use ( usually the same as the last polar align ) and follow the controllers instructions.
Once this is completed, I do another two-star align and see what the error is. By now it's usually very low error.
If it's not, or it gets worse, I use the utilities/curse&swear function.
Hope this helps.
This is what I do, and I've found that after a few attempts the error is very low and pretty much negligible.

I haven't confirmed this next bit - perhaps someone can verify it: I think the idea behind the home position is If I place the tripod in exactly the same location as the previous set up, and start from the home position, I shouldn't need to do another alignment.
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