All good!!! Was a very satisfying drift alignment session! Quite proud of my first time ever.
Yes, I was using large adjustments until there was very slow drift over time. In fact, the scope kept drifting South (in both axes) and I kept making large adjustments because I wanted it to move North, so that I could confirm that I knew what I was doing!!
But I got to the stage where it wouldn't drift (that I could tell) for about a minute, so I just changed axes.
I didn't repeat the process too many times, and I was only out there for about an hour and a half or so (incl. setup)...but I would've been able to get at least 10 - 30sec exposures had I been imaging. I only used about a 150X mag. for now, but will use my 5X barlow next time.
Had TERRIBLE collimation because I didn't bother collimating, howerver I had quite a nice view of Saturn at 120X when the seeing settled down for about 10 secs!!
1 Question! Do I HAVE to drift align with stars? Or can I use planets as well? I can't see why not, but I'm a n00b!
All in all, great (although short) night out, drift aligning!!!!
