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Polar Aligning Your Equatorial Telescope
As the sky turns through the night it revolves around Po-laris, the North Star, so that Polaris barely moves through the night. Polar Aligning is a simple matter of aiming the mount s Polar axis at this a first-time purchaser of an equatorially mounted tele-scope reports that the clock drive doesn t work nothing stays centered, the trouble probably lies not in the drive but in the user s skill at setting up the Telescope . Equatorial mounts with clock drives can provide hands-off tracking of celestial objects. However, for tracking to work as promised, the mount must be aligned to the celestial pole. NOTE: Go To telescopes on fork mounts can be set up to track objects without Polar alignment, just an initial align-ment on two stars. See p.
The Quick Way to Align Rigorous, time-consuming methods of precise polar alignment are necessary only for advanced astrophotography. For general
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