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With my limited experience with a wedge and an LX-90, I can support what Paul says about K3CCD tools. I had great success in achieving polar alignment with it.
My method was to roughly align the scope on the tripod and then fire up K3CCD tools to do a drift alignment. Once the polar alignment was spot on, I would run the "polar align" sequence on the Autostar. I would reliably be rewarded with a "<5" to the pole" for my efforts. If that was all done carefully, I had no problem with GOTOs.
I've since moved onto a much higher quality mount, but the GOTO isn't as good as the Meade. I've only used the AP mount a handful of times (weather and work are such a pain), so I'm still learning, but it is not as reliable for placing objects centre field. It is my understanding that the Meade does have some "modelling" to improve pointing, but the current AP software doesn't.
DT
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