I use pole master and it¡¯s great. You need the ioptron ieq45 adapter for it. ?In addition I use a Microsoft surface with a USB adapter so I don¡¯t have to move my laptop out to the scope. With this combination I am polar aligned in under 5 minutes.?
Dave
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On Jan 18, 2020, at 1:35 PM, sonnyedmonds@... wrote:
?Thanks guys,
What I was doing was leaving my mount set up and covering it.
So it was always very close to PA. Each night I would set my telescope in the saddle, then tweak the ELV adjustment to bring Polaris to the crosshairs in my imaging camera.
Then run my alignment. It always brought my objects within my main cameras view when finished, and I'd manually center my intended object, then set up PHD2 to guide on it.
So there lies why I wonder if it will benefit me. I could easily see it if I moved my mount around. Or if I traveled to a dark site. But wonder about day to day use.
I suppose if I have it, I can choose if I want to use it. But if I don't have it, I can't choose at all.
Just seems like something I should add to a new mount since I'm taking a quantum leap jumping up from an AVX that was a PITA.
