Summer night sky too bright for alignment

[TwuMirrors]

Hi.

I have a 8" SCT with AVX mount.

I live in norway at a lattitude of 60 degrees north. The sun sets but i am in perpetual twighlight.

I want to align my mount but cannot see the stars. I could see jupiter and moons.

Should I just view the planets and sun and forget about alignment until winter when it is minus 20 degrees.

I need alignment for astrophotography.

The darkest the sky gets is nautical twilight which is between 0025 and 0205.

Thanks

Phil

 

[knobby]

Not sure you would see much anyway if you can't see alignment stars ?

You could try alignment on Jupiter and then try adding a few brighter stars after .

[MilwaukeeLion]

Have you tried stellarium scope with avx?  Align on Jupiter with hand controller, then plug hand controller into laptop start stellarium scope.  Start building model, sync on moon bright stars etc.

[TwuMirrors]

Never tried stellarium scope, i have now read a little and will give it a go. I think it will look more interesting to my 9 year son too. Thanks.