|
All Skywatcher EQ mounts come with a Synscan handcontroller and the Synscan program in the handcontroller has a great polar alignment routine that only requires 2 stars to use for alignment ( and no view of the south is required )
3 or 4 iterations get you around 1 arc min alignment error which is more than enough for PHD2 to successfully guide.
Been using it for the past 7 years with an EQ5 , HEQ5 , EQ6-R pro and EQ8-R
pro
Unfortunately there no magical automatic way of polar aligning your mount in a minute after plonking your mount down
The above method will take about 10 to 15 minutes
Cheers
Martin
|