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Old 18-12-2010, 08:21 AM
gbeal
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Hi Dan,
depends how accurate you want. And it is difficult to know what you want to achieve too.
In my case, I image, so alignment needs to be decent, but not to the point of making this unenjoyable.
On many occasions I have simply walked the mount out, roughly looked along the side of the mount at a tree in the distance which is close to south and banged away. So unless there is some reason for having it perfect, why not just enjoy the mount for a while.
Goto will be better if it is perfect, for sure, but many mounts (not sure about the EQ6) are forgiving of less than perfect polar alignment.
Enjoy it, and as you get more proficient, it will just happen on it's own.
Gary
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