Custom reticle,worth it?

[andrex66]

I was wondering if anyone know the diameter of the etched reticle of the Star Adventurer polar scope
I experimented a little in the past years with a diy polar scope for my barn door tracker,using this useful article:

http://www.marcellocucchi.altervista.org/cannocchiale_polare.pdf

Italian pdf,I or Google can traslate as needed.

The polar alignment was as fast as roughly pointing in the pole area,move the "mount" up,down,left,right to center all the stars in the relative circles,done.

My reticle was as this one:

 

this is one of the best shot I got, with the barn door tracker and the custom reticle,179 s at 300mm:

 

Significant exif data:

 

Would this be an improvement over the SA standard reticle? I think it should allow faster polar alignment and no need to have apps or software to get the position of Polaris

 

Comments/feedback welcome!

Andrea

[newbie alert]

I've only just started to use the star adventurer  ..3 times so far and haven't seen octans yet?