Testing the system
I had two wonderful nights with little to no clouds and managed to:
- Align my polar scope
- Polar align manually with my knees in the wet grass
- Get decent tracking!
- Give up on polar aligning manually and buy the 10 USD sharpcap pro license
- Use sharpcap pro to polar align – this is so easy.
- Align the scope, which was a big hit and miss
- Making a total mess of connecting sharpcap, stellarium and synscan together to the mount
- Confusing my scope, laptop and eventually also myself
- Not collimating the scope resulting in horrible stars on my laptop screen
When I ordered the scope to go to Albireo, I felt some relief when I saw two little diamonds in the sky. Unfortunately those were two stars slightly west of Vulpecula. Still pretty close though.