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Old 03-12-2008, 03:25 PM
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leinad (Dan)
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True South - Polar Aligning

Hi Guys,

A quick question which has confused me a little with initially pointing the mount to true south before drift aligning.

I think the confusion has come from a lot of people mentioning to point to 182deg. 180 deg, + 2 Deg for Magnetic Declination.(Perth)

I setup the other night as usual pointed the mount +2W of magnetic south on the compass; but after drift aligning I found the south pole to be more to the East.

After trying to read as many articles as I could last night; I confused myself in the process.

Should not all Magnetic Variations be worked out ' North through East' ?

So if Perth is +2W; this is from magnetic north. Meaning that my mount is going to roughly point 176-178Deg ; ie 2-3deg East of magnetic south.

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