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One thing that can be very useful to do is to loosen the screws that move your mount in azimuth (Provided it is like the EQ6 style bases where you can back out the screws used to align the mount without risk of the mount head leaving the tripod) and have a look at the polemaster output while you pan the mount from side to side within its azimuth alignment adjustment limits. It can help you get familiar with the asterisms that are either side of Octans at each time of year so if you plonk it down roughly aligned you should see something familiar to help you out, even if you are quite a long way off.
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