Jul 15
Polar alignment
Posted in Astronomy at 1:55 am Add comments
Tonight I decided to invest the time to get some polar alignment done. Got a program (WCS — I’ll post a link later when it’s not 2:00 am) that helps do this. Trick was to NOT use a diagonal and set the settings to inverse. For the Azimuth setting, need to use a star in the South and input the Dec setting (I used Altair). For the Altitude setting setting, need to use a star in the East (I used Alpheratz). It seems to have nailed the polar alignment (at least per the program). I will calibrate again on a less windy night and then do some PEC training.
July 20th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Sounds great. Where did you get this software?
July 20th, 2007 at 9:33 am
The link for the software is here: http://wcs.ruthner.at/index-en.htm