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Finally realized my star tracker needs polar alignment every single time
I spent 3 months blaming my camera settings for blurry Milky Way shots, turns out I was just eyeballing the polar scope. Last Tuesday I actually took the 10 minutes to do the drift method and suddenly every single frame was sharp. Has anyone else fought their mount for ages before realizing the manual actually meant what it said?
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tara34512d ago
Just a heads up, the drift method is actually for fine tuning after you've already gotten it close with the polar scope. It won't fix a totally misaligned mount from scratch, it's more for that last tiny bit of error. Usually you want to get it roughly centered in the reticle first, then drift align to nail it down. Took me way too long to figure that out myself, my first drift session was a mess because I started from zero. Once I did the quick polar scope rough alignment first, the drift method took like 5 minutes instead of fighting it for an hour.
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