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Actually depending on your software, if you're a diehard imager you'll soon reach the point of not ever doing 1, 2 or 3 star alignments. Most modern astrophotography software will incrementally adjust your pointing to your chosen target through plate solving.
You can do a single alignment at the start of the night, but its not really necessary. Most packages will fail over to a "blind" solve if the inital field solve fails.
Mastering plate solving is an awesome step up and definitely something to start playing with if you haven't already.
What software are you using for data collection currently?
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