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What license fee? I have an older version of Sharpcap that has polar alignment and I have never had to pay any sort of annual fee. Of course I have not tried to use if for years, as I have a mount on a pier in my observatory, but the few times I have taken to the dark site on the tripod, Sharpcap PA worked fine.
Most modern mounts have reasonable alignment routines, if you know what your doing enough to find true south so you can get close enough to nudge to alignment stars. My CGX has a wonderful sky modelling tool, that will yield increasing accuracy as you add stars to the model.
Drift alignment is for the obsessives, I have never understood why folks bother.
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