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I'm using phd for guiding. What should I expect from fair to good to excellent polar alignment? When I get on excellent, as soon as I tighten the mount down it goes from excellent to good. Is this ok for guiding or should I always work for excellent?

I've gotten good results so far too. It took me a minute to wrap my head around the directions that sc has but after that it's excellent. Polar aligned in less than 5 minutes.

I believe I'm right but I'd like to clarify it. When sharpcap says up and down, right and left in the last polar alignment screen, that's referring to the mount, not the camera that sharpcap is using... Correct? I ask because when I'm fine tuning the scope is still at 90° from the home position (sha...

Excellent. I just paid for a year. Thanks!

I ordered a 50mm guide scope. With the Orion SSAG, will the polar alignment routine work with this? If so I'll go ahead and pay for a year subscription to sharpcap. And hopefully soon Canon DSLRs will be supported.

I don't have a guiding scope yet. That will work though, right?

An Orion 8" Astrograph. It has a focal length of 800mm.

I've found that this camera does work with sharpcap. Is it feasible to use this camera for polar alignment and then replace it with a DSLR for imaging?