Hi Stuart, for this I don't activate the telescope's auto tracking. The scope is unaligned and only moved by using the hand controller. I started the switch to manual tracking as it was sometimes easier than correcting any auto tracking errors during capture (which introduces a little backlash as well as a lag before the auto tracking kicks in again). Call me lazy but it's easier for me to point and manually track than it is to go through the alignment process
Cheets,
Tom