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What am I doing wrong?

Spoon

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Spoon

Spoon

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Hi everyone,

So it was clear tonight so I thought id try properly polar aligning, I've watched 3 videos on it today to make sure I get it right. I've followed it step by step but on 120sec exposures I'm still trailing very badly. Any advice???

Thanks

Cam

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Carina Lass

Carina Lass

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Not really enough information to analyse your error.

Polar align - what did you polar aling to - did you use a polar scope or an alignment on a star?

If you polar aligned to the pole star, did you make sure you had the hour angle right?

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Steve Ward

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Properly Polar-aligned mount in the HEQ5Pro/NEQ6 is well capable of 4 minutes un-guided .

As I said above you need to Drift-align - just putting Polaris in the little circle is fine for visual but nowhere near good enough for long exposure imaging.

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