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Originally Posted by Marko of Oz
I looked in Starry Night to see the orientation of the asterism and after 10 minutes of looking through the polar scope it dawned on me that it was all reversed, backwards, upside down and inverted 
cheers
Mark |
Hi Mark, for the record, the image you get through the polar scope is not reversed or inverted. Being a lens system only, the image is rotated upside-down 180 deg, but NOT mirror-image inverted vertically or horizontally. The easiest way I find to roughly pre-align the polar scope recticle, is to find the Octans pattern in 7x50 bino's first, then rotate the PAS recticle Octans pattern so it is 180 deg upside down relative to the image you got in binoculars. It's a 'sinch' once you get the hang of it a few times. Cheers, Fox
