I tried my new setup last night begininng with using Aligmaster to polar align. The stars it gave me made things impossible from my limited view in the backyard at the moment. I have found
this thread and will give the new star list a go.
However even with the one star that was good last night - Canopus, I found that centering that in the main scope (106mm refractor) after slewing to it using Alignmaster was very tricky using eqmod. OK so I am just a newbie and the controls in eqmod can have me going in the wrong direction pretty quickly so not surprising. I did not have my game controller going so that made it 10 times trickier trying to look down the eyepiece whilst using the keyboard on the laptop whilst being blinded by the screen to boot
.
Any advice? Would using the Orion Autoguider scope instead of the main scope be OK (easier) with Alignmaster?
Cheers
Dave