HI Jeff
If I recall correctly you have a C14 and a DSLR, and I think you are moving out the scope each nigth?
You definitely have your work cut out for you - it's a demanding pixel scale.?
If you are doing polar alignment via the polar scope(?) you will want to do that first. I sent you a video on how to do polar alignment via the scope. If you are doing it another way, you'll want to nail down polar alignment first. Visual polar align will get you a rough polar align, so your exposure lengths may be more limited.?
next you'll do your alignments. Ideally three on the east and three on the west. It's best to choose stars that are significantly different in both RA and DEC.?
you can do GOTO, choose a bright star, slew to it, then using your hand controller on Move or Center speeds, center the star in your guidescope, then your DSLR's frame.?
then choose Menu->Align->alignment
repeat for 3 stars on east and 3 stars on west
that should get you reasonable sky model
If and when you move to a true astro camera, you'll be able to ditch all this and use software-assisted polar alignment and plate solving and all this will be moot
hth
Brian
