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I am a bit mixed bag.
PHD2 Drift align and Static align have been VERY frustrating for me. The static align gave me wild results - almost 20° out from prior known good positioning with a compass and an old-style drift align (that gave superb tracking).
Sharpcap has been mixed, but in a not positional issue. The issue I have is sometimes, even though the signal is strong, good image etc (using a Lodestar - with the updated settings etc it works superbly in Sharpcap) that a pllate solve can take up to 5 minutes even though I can see the trapezium of octans in the image. It seems to lag for some reason. Yet other times, it will do the initial solve instantaneously. Weird. Once u[pp and going from my set position (see my "observatory" post), and if I have NOT touched mount settings, it takes 5 minutes to get to excellent, mere seconds alignment.
So, for me anyway, PHD2 polar alignment methods fail miserably, where Sharpcap has it's peculiarities, but is very reliable for me positioning wise. I also bought and tried Polemaster - hated it - and sold it (I got better results aligning with a compass)
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