Noob question?!!?

[jayconnor (Jay)]

What's the best way to obtain true South for alignment?

[chuckywiz (Ben)]

Depending on your magnetic deviation. Over in perth its about 1.5 degrees or thereabouts.

I use a compass attached to a straight piece of wood. The piece of wood makes the east/west. And compass north/south.

Your back tripod legs only need to butt up against the piece if wood for within a couple degrees of allignment.

Alignmaster then usually takes 2-3 iterations and im alligned

Ben

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

this has a good rundown:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-498-0-0-1-0.html


Cheers

[ZeroID (Brent)]

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