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Polar aligning
So just having purchased my first "real" telescope I have to learn to polar align.
I understand the difficulty of not having a polar star as the Northen stargazers do ?
My process so far
Zero mount
Set tripod pointed South using GPS (can get pretty close)
Adjust azimuth to mag deviation of 7deg to 173 (or pretty close)
Using inclinometer app on phone. Set Lat 34.5 deg for Adelaide
Did I fluke it or does this work (close enough) for viewing?
If set up correctly I should only need to adjust one axis?
thanks for your thoughts
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