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Just use your phones inclometer to get you in the ball park
Use a compass (not your phone one they are not reliable) to get your basic south bearing. if you have a kick ass magnetic offset just remember it for your location. Perth has 1.2 deg or so, I don't bother with it because its too small.
If you are just doing visual, slew to a star near the SCP, physically move the mount to where the mount points the scope. aka Slew to Acrux, put the hand controller down. loosen the Azimith (two knobs at the front of the mount) grab the mount and twist. loosen the front altitude adjustment off completely then use the back one to adjust the mount up or down. Using a combination of both align the star in say a 10 or 12mm eye piece. You will be close enough to the SCP then to do visual with reasonable accuracy.
If you are learning to do photography use either the latest update for the synscan hand controller or alignmaster to get your polar alignment. You can use drift alignment but it takes a lot longer to get it right. Within 10-15 minutes I have good enough Polar alignment land every target on within 10 arc min on a small sensor. Generally drift alignment you have to wait 10 minutes each adjustment. Dont get me wrong if you are in a perm setup then drift aligning is good unless you have a PME type of mount with Tpoint or Maxpoint where it actually models your mount and a whole heap of other things. once again not needed in a set up and shoot every time system
I wouldn't fart around with getting protractors and the like as your time would be spent better haivng a cold beer! I don't have protractors and other fancy gizmos with plum bobs and what not because you don't need them with the technology thats about today!
BM
PS. you should be around the 35-40 deg in altitude just go off the side disk...
Just read your response. unless you have utter faith in your compass (I don't) use the method i state above or it will do you over 9 times out of 10...
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