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Originally Posted by Poita
How are you finding the polar alignment for longer exposures with the Polarie, is it fussy?
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In my experience it's not very fussy at all.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/a...e.php?a=117167
This was a 3 minute and 5 second exposure at 28mm with an ISO of 1600. I haven't done any processing of the pic apart from a resize.
It was done without the polar scope, very easy to do a simple rough alignment.
Maybe more fussy though for those using Octans but from Mikes thread that I have just seen results were impressive too with rough alignment.
There is also a new Polar meter being released which is basically a more accurate compass and latitude finder for daylight use and when you can't visually see your alignment stars.
I have yet to see it tested but I imagine it'd produce similar results as using the sight hole as opposed to a polar scope.
http://www.vixenoptics.com/mounts/35511.html
http://www.vixenoptics.co.uk/PDFs/Us...User_Guide.pdf