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Originally Posted by phxbird
I have the Sirius or the Orion version of the HEQ5. The first thing I did was to swap the 1.75" legs for a 2" diameter leg tripod. I store mine without weights or ota. You take it outside, setup the laptop and all of that. then I use the polar align program with EQASCOM to get it polar aligned. Put it into park position and add weights and OTA. Then you can fire it up and go to your first sync point. It is not hard doing it this way but does take a bit of time. In a week or so I will have my telescope shelter built and will no longer have to move it in and out of the garage. I did learn the hard way that you must put it in a shelter! My AS-GT got busted when an 80 mph wind threw it against a fence, pulling out a 4 foot earth screw that held it all down!
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Forgive me ignorance... what do you mean by "polar align program"? How does it work?