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Originally Posted by Starkler
I have just been playing with the mount again and tonight it is behaving more like I would expect.
My next challenge is polar aligning. In my suburban backyard with the moon out I cant see *any* stars in the polar scope and yes I checked to see that the dec was rotated to the right place first. Are the octans stars normally that hard to see?
This drift aligning caper is going to take some working out.
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Make sure you can see anything through the polar scope. The mount has to be aimed E/W to see through or the axis is blocked by the dec housing.