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The iOptron hand control has a PA routine built into it. Look for it in your manual. No need to see the pole to use it. You iterate between two stars you can see as East as possible and as West as possible - if memory serves me correctly. Club members get close enough that autoguiding with both DEC...

chongo228 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:51 pm You pick two stars from it's database, center the first one, slew to the second and center it and it calculates the error. I used it years ago and remember it worked decently for my situation.

Yes I have used this software. But better yet would be plate solving ANY stars.

Christer, Sweden

[quote=admin post_id=13319 time=1587832939 user_id=2] "Maybe I'm being over sceptical, but I don't believe that it's possible for their claims to be true". Maybe you are right. I think this gadget was introduced a year ago but I find no reviews of it online and absolutely no success storie...

Would it be possible to add a function for polar aligning after plate solving ANY part of the sky? https://staraid.ai/ claims to do this over ST4 port.

Christer, Sweden