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Hi everyone,
PHD nowadays has very nice polar alignment procedures. If you have a good FOV with the guidescope, it will be very similar to the procedure used with the QHY Polemaster but then for free as you don’t have to buy it. 😉 I get very accurate results in minutes (to about 1″accuracy for guiding), it’s fast and fairly easy, especially if your mount has GoTo. They’re making it better and better with additional tools as well and it also works in the Southern hemisphere! As you can see in the attached image, the Southern hemisphere is shown. The procedure involves an already fairly good polar alignment, so you see the stars depicted in the FOV. Then the mount is rotated around the RA-axis in multiple stages and the software calculates the offset. Turn the DEC and RA adjustment knobs and presto. Here is an explanation by the creator, video 1 is drift alignment, video 2 and further this new tool. Personally I use it like in video 4, automatic: click here.
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Might have to try it out!
We can have a go at it at the observatory once, you might need an updated version of PhD is you don’t have the latest already.
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