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Originally Posted by swannies1983
I just turned the motors off to see which way the stars drifted...right or left in the eyepiece (just so I know which way is west). Once done, I turn the motors on to start drift alignment
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Yeah, that's OK. Just FYI I don't do that...
I centre the star in the reticle, drive the scope in RA till the star is near the edge of the field of view, rotate the reticle till it's on the star...
Technically I'm aligning the reticle with the RA axis of my scope and not with the axis of the earth... little difference... I just find it easier than messing about in the menus of my hand controller to start and stop the RA drive.
Same result in the end!
Al.