alignment

[brrttpaul]

I read somewhere the other day but cant for the life of me remember where, Someone had asked how to polar align before the north star is visible as he wanted to shoot jupiter and venus , and someone replied  "just do a solar system alignment". I have never heard of this before so does any one know what that is and how you would go about it?  Apologies if its a stupid question

[Tinker1947]

I'm not up to speed on a solar system alignment, but id its a syscan handset there is the option to PA on any star anywhere in the sky......its works ok on my mount i normally do 2 using different stars ....

[brrttpaul]

Yes I use a synscan hand controller, where would I find that on my controller? upto now I have always just gone through the usual procedure, time daylight saving star align etc. 

[Tinker1947]

once you have done a 2 or 3 star align, it come up as a extra option so there's 1,2 or 3 star, then PA.....

[brrttpaul]

thx might have a look at that

[Coastliner]

This may or may not help, Celestron Nexstar gives you the option from the outset to choose which alignment method you want, eg 3 star, 2 Star, polar and Solar System. So I would choose Solar, choose my planet, get it in the viewfinder manually the align to it. Maybe your scope will give you the same options from the start.

[brrttpaul]

Thx for the advice, i will have a good go tonight playing around with it