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I always used the drift alignment method to align the mount.
The reasons for this are:
1. Not all sites can see the south celestial pole.
2. Sigma Octans and nearby stars are very nondescript/not bright and in a suburban area perhaps invisible with light pollution.
Some master this skill and I'd say it is worthwhile to be able to setup a mount using the polar alignment scope which with a Tak is supposed to be very good.
Drift alignment though measures your mounts drift which ultimately is what you want reduced for autoguiding when doing long exposures.
It doesn't have to take too long - maybe an hour.
There are good writeups about how to do it. Its a good idea to persevere and learn it as it will help you long term and without it it will be hard to get good images.
Greg.
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