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Old 23-06-2013, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Galah View Post
Rather, I was concerned about a scope that was tracking (or not) during the entire process - centering the first star, moving to and centering the second star
Tracking's not technically needed - as long as the alignment stars are centred on your reticle/camera at the moment you press "Next", you technically don't need to track. However, it'd be rather challenging to keep a star centred at high power without tracking enabled!

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, and also during the mount adjusting process.
Seems to me that tracking/not tracking would affect the result?
Tracking is rather important for the mount adjustment process... How are you going to be able to adjust the mount if the star (i.e. your visual indication of what the polar alignment error is) just zips out of view immediately?
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