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From my back yard, Octans is a no-show, however when at astrofest up at Duckadang, I basically plonked my tripod down and leveled it up, plonked the head on it, then using a hand held compass, pointed it to 11.5° E of S, and using a magnetic inclineometer set the altitude. Just after dusk i looked through the polar scope and to my amazement, There was Sigma Octans within about 4mm of the polarscopes reticle... with 2 minutes of very gentle tweaks, the mount was alligned well enough to keep jupiter on a 1/4" ccd chip for upwards of 2.5hrs at a focal length of over 6300mm...
I think If you can use the polarscope, then you should..
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