Hello all
Would any members know of an Excel spreadsheet or piece of Java that shows how much a mount is polar misaligned when you plug in the measurements obtained during a
drift alignment session - ie. the amount of North/South drift of the guide star, its declination and the overall tracking time?
The best I found to date was Frank Barrett's program on his Celestialwonders webpage. However, for some reason Frank measures the drift in East/West direction rather than North/South as is standard using the drift method. I tried to email him about this but the email link on his site is broken and the site appears inactive (not sure what's going on there).
I really do not want to down load a
software program (PHD etc) and then spend valuable time trying to get it to work. I have a good
eyepiece with a reticle, a stop watch and am able to identify suitable stars on the celestial equator. (It's times like this I really envy people who have the maths to do their own trig calculations.)
Regards
Doug
