AZ GTI Polar Align Idea....

[gaz81]

Hi All,

I recently got the Skywatcher Wedge for my GTI. 
 

I read many comments on on using SharpCap etc to do this... but I struggling to getting it pointing in the right direction in the first place. 
 

I’m new to all this 🙂

so looking at the wedge, I could see two M6 bolt holes that seem to be parallel to the saddle.

So my thought was attach something that allows the use of the polar align app you can get on your phone.

So I got hold of some long M6 bolts, some M6 coupler bolts, a bracket from B&Q and a bit of wood 🙂

So did a bit of prototyping...

Maybe it’s a rubbish idea, but seemed worth a shot  

 

 

 

[gaz81]

Course it would need some thumb screws as the M6 couplers won’t get in the way but the big metal plate would! 

[Robindonne]

Dont know what you’re planning to do.  But when you’re doing some photography, you can always use that camera to polaralign.   Im not familiar with this mount, and did some testing with this app also.  But that was basically to pa an old celestar mount while on a balcony out of the celestial pole sight.   These apps help but are as accurate as....

[gaz81]

Well was thinking the above to get it in the right direction then shapcap to finish off... kind of thing.