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Brian,
W.R.T. Octans, have you polar aligned before with other mounts, polar scopes, etc? I grew up with Vixen’s polarscopes & learnt to recognise the Octans quadrant pretty easily even with different widefield eyepieces, which then makes recognizing Octans via the Polemaster rather easily.
I would recommend practicing recognizing star patterns via eyepieces (with & without diagonals) just to familiarize a little more on inverted & flipped views, & star hop using star maps.
Another recommendation is to have the Polar Scope Align app installed on your phone. You can select different views of how Octans should look through the polar scope depending on the mount you have. There’s also a PoleMaster option there.
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