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Originally Posted by Kokatha man
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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Darryl
Yes it can be a real pain, but what I did was to remove the PAS entirely and make a small stand that I could rotate it in (Two small blocks with V's cut out). Then slowly adjusted the PAS reticule so that it was in the centre of the scope when rotated. This worked for me. The way I align is a bit different now.
I use a compass and level to set the scope up initially. Then I set the home position for the mount as given in instructions for EQMOD (see their site). Then I look through the PAS and align the scope as best as possible, then I look through the 8x50 spotter scope and see OCTANS just in the field of view (The spotter scope and main scope are really well aligned). Then I look thru the main scope and see the "inverted #7" asterism and then use the alt/az adjustments to fine align. A quick check through the PAS and all is well. This takes me all of 10 min. and is the fastest way to polar align. Then If I'm going to do astrophotography I do a drift align.
Allan