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In daylight make sure your main scope with your camera is in line with your polar scope in home pos.
As night point your rig in general direction of where you think CSP is..take a time exposure with your main camera with your mount not tracking and note the star trails will suggest where the CSP can by found adjust your mount to centre there, take a second and third time exposure until the stars appear to rotate around the centre of your camera screen...These days I use Polemaster but still use that approach to get close before Polemaster to bring Octans into my screen...although I now have Asiair plus and its system seems ok so Polemaster is probably now a thing of the past...and work towards a rig built with Asiair plus in mind..It is brilliant..autoguiding auto focus meridian flip plate solving target acquisition and centre... and all hair pulling things now easy ...it's worth the money just for focusing.
Alex
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