to help with the speed of set up one of the guys though this forum spent a bit of time to set up jigs and little bits apon the telescope so that he could "roughly" polar align the scope in broad daylight, and as soon as octanis became visable he said that it drops it within a few minutes of the FOV. though he did say that 5-10 minute to watch for drift was a very good idea. And since i havn't had much experience in the race for drift alignment i can only "speculate"