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Old 28-03-2012, 04:42 PM
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one of the quickest ways to get a good North - South alignment prior to drift aligning is to use a planetarium program that has your co-ordinates and time well set. Then look due north and look for a visible star that is transiting at that time or really nearly so. Adjust your azimuth so that at the time that your star is transiting you have it dead centered in an eyepiece. If you have adjusted your latitude well enough at that transit time you should have the star well centered and be very well polar aligned.
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