To my fellow astrophotographers..
I have finished the chapter on Polar Alignment and the Drift Method on my website, and created an animation that I think really demonstrates WHY the Drift Alignment method works. I also created a unique Guiding Simulator that may help users learn the drift method and manual guiding.
Of course there's lots of text, animations, and the Guiding Simulator, but the please take a peak at the LAST section of the tutorial and let me know if it makes Polar Alignment easier to understand and why you use a star on the equator/meridian for E/W misalignment, and a star on the Eastern Horizon for N/S misalignment.
You can find the tutorial at:
http://www.petesastrophotography.com/tutorial/polaralignment.html
FLASH required.
(note, your browser will have to load the original frames first, so just wait until the screen stops jumping around before you can navigate it.)
I hope this tutorial helps!!
CF
I have finished the chapter on Polar Alignment and the Drift Method on my website, and created an animation that I think really demonstrates WHY the Drift Alignment method works. I also created a unique Guiding Simulator that may help users learn the drift method and manual guiding.
Of course there's lots of text, animations, and the Guiding Simulator, but the please take a peak at the LAST section of the tutorial and let me know if it makes Polar Alignment easier to understand and why you use a star on the equator/meridian for E/W misalignment, and a star on the Eastern Horizon for N/S misalignment.
You can find the tutorial at:
http://www.petesastrophotography.com/tutorial/polaralignment.html
FLASH required.
(note, your browser will have to load the original frames first, so just wait until the screen stops jumping around before you can navigate it.)
I hope this tutorial helps!!
CF
