[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by TidaLpHasE

I'ts not lookin too good for even a 5-10 second shot tonight, seems doing a polar alignment has almost got the better of me

I have come inside for a rest as not to become frustrated with it, i have used a compass to align the mount south, the problem is seeing the asterism in octans through the polar scope.

I need to do a bit more reading and research i think.

the first night I spent 4 hours mucking about with this. what I did so that i could learn where it was and what I was looking for was to just spend time with the polar finder and not worry about the scope. I giggled and moved and manhandled the tripod, raising and lowering one leg and twisting the whole rig until i could manually find the asterism in the finderscope taht resembled the octans trapezium area shown on the etching in the polar finder. i did find this eventually. then once I observed the alignments and positionings I then levelled the scope mount to suit and adjusted the head until I found the same view and the n tried a little bit more fine tuning. then I took my first ever shots with the setup. I loved it and was on a high. don't give up, just think of it as one of lifes little challenges