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ditto...plus polar reticle
Yes Craig - after I did the polar alignment I went for the 3 star align and it offered up Sirius, Achernar and Acrux in that order: Sirius was quite off-target and needed a fair slew, but the next 2 were pretty darn close. Must've punched a good few dozen "goto's" to check it out and the only ones that needed any pulling back into centrefield were the one in the north-western quarter - which was understandable seeing my alignment stars ranged from the zenith and into the SE quadrant. Tracking over the half-hour was excellent as previously stated.
If you're reading this Allan, you told me in a pm that you thought it well worthwhile to get the polar scope's reticle set up: I spent some time with it on Sunday arvo and was annoyed how adjustments to the allen head screws seemed to make the reticle "jump about" rather than move with a smooth transition - is this normal or possibly a fault with mine? I've left it (polar scope) alone and am just SCP'ing via the scope and laser pointer, but allways want to get to the bottom of various techniques.
Regards, Darryl.
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