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They is the most amazing pictures I have ever seen

When the mount is polar aligned then wherever you put your telescope in RA and lock it, it will track the sky that its pointed at (well it will if you do a good polar align ) . The time bit of were polaris is is just a known starting point that you need to make sure the bit of sky you are looking at does not wander off. I got this info only last week of WAVESOARER on this forum and I followed his instructions and when I tried it out my tracking was as near perfect as it could be. He said

1 Get polarfinder off the internet and put your details in

2 print the time you want to align your scope

3 Go out and looking through your polarscope match the image with whats on your print out using the latitude and azimuth bolts to get polaris onto the circle. It does'nt matter if its not in the little circle as you are not using your setting circles

4 Rotate the RA axis and watch if polaris stays on the circle when you turn it

If it does then you are there.  If not then fine adjust with the bolts till it is.I know this is not good enough for long exposure photography but short exposure is fine and slowly you will start to understand what is going on but in the meantime you can start to enjoy what you are doing instead of going out of your mind (Been there and done that )

I know with practice I will get better and understand a bit more as I go on. Hope ypu will too

Regards   Geoff

The penny dropped for me when my brain realised that you are polar aligning the mount and not the telescope !!! It does not matter were the telescope points as long as the MOUNT is polar aligned . I hope this helps as I had sleepless nights trying to work it out. I know that there is a lot more to it but this realisation helped me to get there in the end..

Inpro Optics 15x70. 4.2 FOV. Really bright views. Got them half price in a camera store in St Helens whilst they were re doing the window display. I badgered the assistant that they would not fit back in the new display and should be DISPOSED of accordingly. It WORKED ! But I believe they have gone out of buisness now.

wow, glad I checked this out before I bothered people about drawings of bino mounts,,,brilliant,,,cheers