I cant see anything through my polar scope because the light pollution.
Chances are that if you live in a city you wont be able to see the octans anyway. You need to learn how to drift align. If your only observing you dont need to spend hours getting your drift perfect but the closer you get the SCP the better your goto's will be.
You need to find out what your magnetic declination is for your location,
in other words you need find how far east of magnetic south true south is and then set your mount accordingly. Usually this would be enough to get your mount to do a successful 3 star align, if you find that it's not then start to do a bit of drift aligning.
Check this site out for a description of the drift method. There is also a simulator so you can practice.
http://www.petesastrophotography.com/
The closer you get to the SCP the better you Goto's will be.