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Originally Posted by DJT
If you have to wait 10 minutes for dedicated software program's to help you drift align for each axis then don't bother with them.
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Thanks for the advice but I'm happy with my polar align process and will continue to do it this way. Everyone has their own method.
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Originally Posted by DJT
Be pragmatic. Meridian and celestial pole for drift alignment, don't worry about being "exactly" 30 degrees
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EQAlign doesn't follow the 30 degree rule.
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Originally Posted by DJT
for tweaks, use the functions available in your preferred guiding software such as phd or whatever else exists.
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I should have mentioned that I need fairly accurate polar alignment because I have never been able to sort out guiding issues in DEC. I try and get as good as polar alignment as I can so that there's very little drift in DEC in the length of my subs (up to about 10mins). I manually correct DEC as autoguiding in this axis causes issues.
Also, I can't use programs like Alignmaster as my mount doesn't have any ASCOM support.