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Alignmaster always seems to insist on one of its 2 suggested stars being at less than 30 degrees which doesn't work in my backyard. I even tried Peter's list of southern stars, but it still insists on going for stars behind my back hedge or trees. Wish you could click on a couple of stars somehow.
I've recently thrown together some code to monitor the drift values coming out of Maxim while it tracks, but doesn't correct, on a star. It seems after about 60secs you can get a very accurate (within 10 arcmins) indication of your PA error for alt or az by looking at the average rate of drift. Obviously very setup specific though.
PoleAlignMax is awesome, but you need Pinpoint.
I think K3CCDTools or Phd drift aligning is pretty hard to beat for little cost and works with nearly any camera nowadays. I realise lots of people have lots of success with Alignmaster though.....
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