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Pa
Hi mate, welcome, Lewis forgot to mention that your equatorial mount (if it is) should also be set at your latitude in degress bearing in mind most mounts actual latitude scales are not that accurate.
Have you seen or googled drift alignment>?
Do you have the EQ wedge and polar scope? if not it could be quite difficult to polar align without the wedge as this is where the latitude is set.
For example- where I am in Tas is 42' South roughly so I am set up at 42' on the scale roughly (to start with at least) and my magnetic variance from true south is about 11' so I am a bit to the west of true south. In truth because my compass is affected by all the metal around and my latitude scale is not that accurate, I have to then adjust the alignment with another method-(drift/software etc) to get it good enough to photograph with.
There is a bunch of stuff on line about polar aligning an equatorial mount-maybe even some stuff in the articles section on ICE IN SPACE - using compasses (iphone?) and spirit levels etc.
If you are using a computer to run a camera you can download different software that helps you align (PHD 2/ Pole Align Max/ Alignmaster/ etc)
Hope you get it sorted-its the hardest part when you first start to image objects but worth doing well.
Good luck
Graham
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