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Originally Posted by bojan
It seems that PoleMaster software works only with PoleMaster hardware.. and that hardware is just USB camera with some specific ID that enables PoleMaster software.
Is there equivalent application, that will worlk with any camera?
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That's more or less what I'm working/playing on. Thus far I have put together a spreadsheet to calculate Alt and Az from a plate solved image taken along the polar axis. Much easier than using Stellarium to do the calcs. I'm taking two measurements 180deg apart in RA so as to calculate the midpoint to account for collimation error.
From alt and az it's trivial to work out the adjustments needed for PA.
In due course it should not be hard to write up a program to do the calcs and read the FITS file header for the correct time when the image was taken, for more accurate calculation of alt and az.