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Originally Posted by Hakka
I just did a quick test shoot with the polarie. I'm having a bit of trouble getting the alignment right. I can't see Octans, I ended up just pointing it in the general direction of where I thought it was. I'm north of melbourne (bendigo) which puts octans in the light pollution from melb.
I was getting good shots up to about 2 minutes but after that I the stars were starting to trail.
Just wondering what other options there are for aligning this thing, is there any way of doing it using a laptop + software? I have a D800E and can feed a HDMI signal to my laptop.
I'm guessing the scope wont be much use due to the light pollution.
I'd like to get my exposures out to around 8 minutes so I can shoot the milky way at base iso for some very large prints, I really need the alignment to be perfect.
Thanks.
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What focal length were you using? 2 minutes is pretty good!
I was getting 2 minutes with a wide field of view after just using a compass to roughly align it south and trying to set the latitude adjustment as accurate as possible.
http://www.mikesalway.com.au/tag/vixen-polarie/