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Hi John
Yeah – the lack of a permanent observatory and a full time assistant sucks; now I know why Dr Fred Watson always looks so cheerful!
Like you, I have tripod leg locations marked out. I got the EM200 mount polar aligned (using the built in PAS) and marked the leg positions. I then sunk 200mm long off cuts of 100mm PVC drainpipe into the wetted earth, slightly below the surface for mowing purposes.
I now plonk the 3 legs in the centre depression in each of these locations and using the EM200 PAS, touch up the polar alignment, which is rarely more than 10 to 15 arc mins off, when I first look through the PAS.
After that, I do the one star alignment and I’m up and running. On a night where everything is going well, this procedure takes less than 5 mins, end to end.
Cheers
Dennis
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