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Hi Rowland
Well done – now all you have to do is mark the locations of the 3 tripod legs and you should be able to return to the same spot and find Sigma Octans in the FOV of the PAS.
When I remove the EM200 head from the tripod, I always unscrew the same azimuth adjustment screw (the West-facing knob in my case) about 7 or 8 turns so when I re-fit the mount, re-tightening the same screw will put the mount very close to being polar aligned.
I set up on grass and have removed 3 small sods of grass where the tripod feet sit and it only takes me a few seconds to tweak the Alt/Az adjustment screws to get polar aligned again each time I set up.
If you don’t have the “Computer Stand By” switch, then with the tripod feet marked and the head fitted as described above, it still only takes a couple of minutes to polar align so it shouldn’t be a issue?
Cheers
Dennis
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