Newbie Question.

[shropshire lad]

If I level my tripod and align my wedge angle with polaris and lock it down, is that the correct angle to connect my AZ-GT! head for eq goto and track.?

See my poor attempt at a diagram below.

 

[fifeskies]

Yes , except that Polaris is near to but not actually the correct place to align the scope.

Set to Polaris will not give good tracking for very long exposures, but for visual should be good enough.

 

If getting into Astrophotography you will need a utility of some kind eg Sharpcap pro , to get exact alignment.

[Dave Lloyd]

The sam console app has a polar clock utility. It's great for accurate alignment through a polar scope. 

[shropshire lad]

3 minutes ago, Dave Lloyd said:

The sam console app has a polar clock utility. It's great for accurate alignment through a polar scope. 

Unfortunately I dont have a polar scope.

 

[nephilim]

+1 for PA using Sharpcap Pro, quick, easy & well worth £10 per year. Also if you didn't already know, Sharpcap is a very good piece of lunar & planetary imaging software.

Edited January 2, 2021 by nephilim

[malc-c]

One thought that comes to mind, and correct me if I'm wrong as I've not had a play with these modern mounts, but when taking an AZ/ALT goto mount and tilting it so the AZ axis now points to Polaris, doesn't the sysnscan screw things up ?.  Under a normal operation the firmware running on the handset has been written so that it sends pulses to both AZ and ALT axis in order to track.  On an EQ mount only the RA axis receives commands to track. 

Just to make sure I wasn't spouting a load of BS I did a little research... seems I was right, however SW provide the corrected firmware for the mount, along with additional tools to allow control of the mount 

https://youtu.be/xJmntIr50lk