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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Gday Skysurfer
Just pick a known bright star and centre it.
Calc its expected azimuth for that time using a phone app like SkSafari etc
Set The Azimuth circle to match
Andrew
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Great suggestion, Andrew.
FWIW maybe if you intend to plonk the dob in the same spot in the backyard, then can I suggest putting in some reference pavers on
the ground or lawn you sit it on, fix a cheap laser pointer on the
dob base somewhere, do a calibration as Andrew states and
then mark a spot on a distant wall the laser points too.
That way, any other night you set up just pointing the laser at the same
mark on the wall will give you your azimuth reference point.
Or you could simply just do Andrew's calibration method every night.
Steve