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Originally Posted by Peter.M
Yep. What I usually do is do a quick drift alignment by watching the graphs in phd with tracking turned off, then move the guide camera to the main scope and use it to center stars precisely in alignmaster. I found that without the coarse drift alignment the star would end up slewing out of the FOV when alignmaster did its calibration and bringing it back to center then is very difficult.
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Right so:
- Make sure mount is level
- Have scope pointing south at (in my case) 32 degrees dec
- Do a coarse drift align with PHD as above
- Close down PHD?
- Use Alignmaster to fine tune
- Tear hair out when I can't see second alignment star
- Close it all down. Get the dob out and enjoy myself instead!
Thanks Peter. Looking forward to give it a crack.