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Originally Posted by issdaol
I have a professional dedicated one and I also use a couple of apps on my iPhone.
The iPhone apps when compared with polar alignment using pole-master were so close it was negligible.
Where I was out with the iPhone was the true-south compass direction not inclination.
So I would give the free app try first as well.
But as dedicated inclinometer should in theory be better......
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There is an app simply called "Compass", and it allows you to set either true or magnetic - it retrieves the declination from GPS. If I use the old wooden 4x2 on the ground trick, so that I orient it to point south, and then put the mount on top using 2 plumb bobs (one north end, one south end), I find I don't have to adjust azimuth.
I mean, you and I must have something right Phil - I had the mount up and running pointing true south in 5 minutes last week with you, and it tracked targets without fault (we left it for 2 hours at one point, and it was still there on Omega Cent. later, NOT guided). Well, that is until the battery pack karked it in the cold...