Hi Fred,
My dad aligned the mount by sight when we first put it in the dome, i did a short mapping run of 40 points to get a polar report and was surprised to see that the mount was 7 arc-minutes west and 20 arc-minutes down of the pole.
that was without drift alignment or anything :S lol so i went ahead an did a full run to see if it could be done. I'll be messing around with polar alignment tonight, seeing as the mount is permanently fixed then i may as well get it as close and as accurate as possible.
I did image at prime focus, without using smaller sub-frames though. I was hoping like hell that it would work, if it didn't i have just finished downloading the USNO catalogue and would have tried again tonight.
Unfortunately i cooked my download quota for the rest of the month
