How do you accurately align with polar?

How do you accurately align with polar?

How to Accurately Accomplish Polar Alignment

1. First, aim the mount’s polar axis roughly at Polaris.
2. If the star drifts south in the eyepiece, the polar axis is pointing too far east.
3. If the star drifts north, the polar axis is too far west.
4. Shift the polar axis left or right accordingly, until there is no more drift.

How do you use polar align laser?

Here’s how it works :

1. Remove polar scope.
2. Accurately level the top of the tripod, with the mount peg / centre aligned with North using a compass.
3. Fit mount onto tripod and rotate the Dec’ axis as if using the polar scope.
4. Fit adapter into polar axis & fit laser into adapter.
5. Switch on laser.

How do you choose a star alignment?

Two Star: Choose two stars that are on the same side of the meridian, and at least 3 hours apart in RA and 3° apart in Dec. If you suspect that the polar alignment is off by 1° and above, choose two stars that are well more than 3° but less than 60° apart in Dec.

How accurate should polar alignment be?

For almost all work except very near the poles, polar alignment of 2′ or less is sufficient. That is reasonably easy to attain.

What is my polar alignment?

Polar alignment is the process of accurately aligning the polar axis of your mount with the north (or south) celestial pole. The polar axis does not move when you move the telescope. Simply put, you need to make sure that your telescope mount is rotating on the exact same angle the sky turns on.

How accurate does polar alignment need to be?

What does polar alignment do?

What is star alignment?

Spliced Transcripts Alignment to a Reference (STAR) is a fast RNA-seq read mapper, with support for splice-junction and fusion read detection. STAR aligns reads by finding the Maximal Mappable Prefix (MMP) hits between reads (or read pairs) and the genome, using a Suffix Array index.

How do you align Polaris on eqmod Mount?

Click on Align Polar Scope button and PolarScope tool will align your RA axis exactly to the position of the Polaris in the sky according to the time and coordinates of your observation site. After alignment, EQMOD initate Tracking, so you can adjust your mount and bring Polaris to he’s bubble with no rush.

How does eqmod initate tracking after polar alignment?

After alignment, EQMOD initate Tracking, so you can adjust your mount and bring Polaris to he’s bubble with no rush. You have to be very carefull with all the equipment and wires running around your mount. Double and triple check that nothing going to smash on one of the legs when mount moves !!!

Where can I find the polar alignment tool?

On the site information area, click on the “Clock” tab next to Polar Star HA. This will open the Polar Scope Alignment Tool. Since I moved bubble to the 12 o’clock position I will also choose 12 o’clock from the dropdown menu. Then click on the button with + and House to save the PolarScope Home position.

How to align the bubble to the Polaris?

After we had rotated both of our axises and aligned the bubble exactly on 12 o’clock we need to tell EQMOD that this is the Polar Scope Home position, from which later it will align to the actual position of Polaris. On the site information area, click on the “Clock” tab next to Polar Star HA. This will open the Polar Scope Alignment Tool.