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Old 02-08-2008, 07:59 PM
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You need to think drift aligned to the motion of the Earth East -> West is mostly periodic / seeing / tracking rate or refraction errors.

Drift along the other axis during a drift alignment is mostly polar mis-alignment.

So ignore the first class of errors when you are drift alignment (RA errors) and adjust for error in the other axis (DEC).
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