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Originally Posted by rat156
Hi All,
After some adjustments to my mount over the weekend I needed to get things aligned again. I have Starwalk on my iPhone, so I asked it to find Polaris Australis so I could get things roughly aligned. The PMX has a nice flat bit on the mount which make a near square alignment possible. The iPad is a bit big, but jammed up against the rear of the mount seems to work OK.
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Stuart, the biggest problems with iDevices are that the compass isn't really accurate and any magnetic material anywhere near (eg reo in the concrete) throws them off badly. I've tried using a few compass apps, Star Walk and SkySafari on my iPhone and iPad near where I sit my G11 and the steel pool fence stuffs up the alignment. Doing the figure 8 wave helps but isn't perfect.
For a temporary setup it might get you in the ballpark but the solar noon method works better.