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Hi,
I use a Philips toucam through my scope and use a program called K3CCDtools. This programs allows you to see the star you are focussing on your laptop monitor but also allows you to select the star and the program will graph the motion of the star. If the numbers relating to the star near the eastern horizon increase then I make adjustments to my altitude until the numbers stop increasing. I use big adjustments to start with so that if the numbers start to decrease in the negative direction I know I have gone too far and start going the other way. Same goes with looking at a star overhead. We were put onto this method by Paul(1ponders) and after a little getting use to we find we can align so we have vertually no star movement within about 20 to 30 minutes.
Mark
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