Hi. I'm a new EQ6-R owner, having graduated from a Skywatcher Star Adventurer.
I have a couple of questions regarding the polarscope. I live under quite dark skies - tonight I can make out the 4 stars of the Octans asterism. However I can barely see anything through the polarscope even though I have the DEC axis rotated correctly and can see through the shaft hole. There's nowhere near enough star brighness to do any sort of visual polar alignment. Am I missing something ? Am I supposed to pull out the whole DEC head to see past the shaft ?
The Star Adventurer was MUCH clearer and allowed me to get very accurate polar alignment.
Thanks, Kelvin