How close do you need to be Erik? Will you be doing long exposure photography?
I could never go back to manual aligning after using a camera on the main scope or guidescope. The beauty of it is you get a rapid quantitive indication of drift.
Some good options to read up on though:
- Polar scope
- Alignmaster
- Drift alignment with camera and PhD or Maxim (or any guiding package that lets you temporarily turn off guiding and monitor drift)
Its a fairly subtle thing doing it manually as you get closer to good alignment.
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