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Hi Tony,
Aligning in the
south is not as hard as people like to think. There is a neat little group of
stars that make an equilateral triangle with the pole. They are about 30' apart
and about mag 7 but when you have them in the field you can see the exact spot
where the pole is. In theory this works well but my mount seems to have a
slightly wonky axis and I can never determine my rotation point. As far
as I can tell in the north, while you have a bright star close to the pole
getting any closer than that is harder in the absence of some faint ones
like we have down south.
Regards
Monte
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