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Gday Evan
If you do a rough polar one star align and centre Sig Oct using the wedge controls, it will get you close as you note.
You can certainly drift align after that without messing up the alignment, as in Polar one star, there is no alignment "model". The scope just tracks at sidereal and "assumes" its RA axle is pointed at the pole.
What you would do after the drift aligning is select a bright star near the celestial equator and do a goto ( which will be off ). Manually centre the star using the Hbx keys and do a synch. That will reset the internal datums and you are now properly re aligned.
Another approach that i use at times is to put my LX200 into polar home and spin the declutched RA axle until the stars make a circle in the EP, ie i am at perfect DEC = -90.
I then use my wedge controls to adjust the pointing until i can see the triangular asterism that marks the pole.
It just fits into the FOV of my 26mm EP, so centring the pole is pretty easy.
When that stays centred in the EP as i spin in RA, i know i am mechanically pointed at the pole.
After that, just do a polar one star align and just hit enter when it asks you to centre Sig Oct. Dont even bother to look.
Centre the second star correctly and you are done.
Andrew
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