I have an app on my iPhone called "PS Align Pro" that I use for rough polar alignment. I just sit the phone in the dovetail on the mount and adjust everything until the RA and Dec are aligned. It isn't good enough for long-exposure imaging, but it is good enough for visual use....
The amount of local light pollution in your location can make seeing stars difficult. You can find out where your backyard falls in the Bortle Scale usingthis guide. Amateur astronomers and astrophotographers must understand how to find the North Star to align their telescopes. This is referred ...
An interesting note about the name of this star. It's actually a shortened version of the words "stella polaris," which is a Latin term for "polar star."The names of starsare often about the myths associated with them, or, as with Polaris, are given to illustrate their practicality. Ch...
Your goto alignment stars being 25 degrees off is likely to be due to more than just magnetic variation. The usual cause of that is not turning on the power in an accurate home position. Be sure to set the RA and dec to give you an accurate home position before turning on the power....
's nine Merlin engines cast a blisteringly bright light on the still waters around KSC, climbing the sky as the fire's glow reflected off the low, early morning clouds to disperse a dim yellow hue for miles around the space center, until becoming another shimmering point among the stars....
Rev E1: Adds NMB version. Adds underglow, rotary encoder support and 6u space support. Changed the switch rotation on MX ISO-enter. Reset button removed to reduce risk of resetting the board when bottoming out or when using a lot of foam. ...
almost run overwatch on lowest settings with 2 fps if all the stars align. Member 1 July 18, 2016 7/18/2016 at 1:59 PM, nicklmg said: AMD's new graphics cards are here, and they are pretty sick... But what's even more sick than hearing about a new graphics...
Possibly heretical suggestion, stick with the adventurer or get the GTi, ditch the polemaster and laptop and polar align the mount manually using the polar finder scope and the position of the stars instead, I use Kochab to align from and I've found it's accurate enough for 2 minute expos...