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Old 22-07-2013, 11:59 PM
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Originally Posted by AstroJunk View Post
Chris has one and may share a photo, but they realy aren't necessary. The Synscan has a built in polar alignment routine which I am told works very well, just set it to roughly south and roughly your lattitude and run the program which uses

I haven't tried it, as I use PemPro, but it is meant to work pretty well and basically uses a couple of reference stars to help you get the mount just right.
Cheers for that.

So, do you set it up in the general direction and elevation, then the scope slews to a couple of stars one at a time then you manually adjust the mount to bring the star into the centre FOV? Is that how it works?

Baz.
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