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Matt and all frienss,
Below is what I found out suit me and all of us (I believed) and please let me know or give any comments whether I am right or not.
Step 1.
Point the mount and the scope to the SCP roughly.
Step 2.
Stand behind your scope and slew the RA to East (Anticlockwise from your eyes) so that the scope is at horizontal position.
Step 3.
slew the DA 90 degree to the North and that is my starting point.
Step 4.
align the illuminated ep so that when you move the RA, the monitoring star is within the red lines.
Step 5.
Center that star and wait for a while (if the initial polar align was good then you have to wait for a longer time) and you know how the star drift. At this stage, don't bother where it drifted, the drift S or N doesn't matter at all.
Step 6.
Adjust the Slew speed to 2, then slew the DA to the north a little bit and check the star drift.
Step 7.
If the star drift further, then you mount is set too far to the west then adjust the mount to the East of course and start step 5 again. If in the opposite case, then your scope is too far to the East.
After several iterations (4 in my case last week with more than 10 degree away), you got there and you can start the next step.
Step 8.
Point your scope to the SCP again.
Step 9.
Slew the RA 90 degree to the East and find whatever star you can, or adjust the RA until you find one if the visal was blocked.
Step 10.
Adjust the illuminated ep so that when you move the RA, the monitoring star is within the red line.
Step 11.
Center the star and wait for a while.
Step 12.
Check the drift, adjust the declaination of the mount so that star return to the within the red lines and start step 11 again.
The above procedures can ignore any configuration of the scope such as with or without the diagonal or polar scope and ignore whether the star drift to the N or S.
Bill
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