The Polar Scope Align app is helpful for getting the mount setup and aligned. Two bits of info for you that were helpful to me: 1. I have had some success with the normal methods, but they don't seem to be consistent and I have to set up every time I use my scope. I'll now switch back to ES and use Sky Safari to obtain co ordinates of objects I wish to image until I'm ready to set up and try guiding On a funny side note as I was pointng to objects and everything was aligned I thought hat I may as well take some images, surprisingly I was getting 120 second subs with no trailing on 95%, but even more surprisingly was that as I had not intended to do any imaging just check set-up I didn't notice until packing down that I had not put any counterweights on the bar I would be interested in hearing about your 'simple' polar alignment routine. I'll now switch back to ES and use Sky Safari to obtain co ordinates of objects I wish to image until I'm ready to set up and try guiding On a funny side note as I was pointng to objects and everything was aligned I thought hat I may as well take some images, surprisingly I was getting 120 second subs with no trailing on 95%, but even more surprisingly was that as I had not intended to do any imaging just check set-up I didn't notice until packing down that I had not put any counterweights on the bar :) I simply centred Polaris in the polar scope then shimmed the dovetail to get Polaris centred in the camera, after which I carried out as best a polar alignment as I could then tried a "go to" on a star, it was a fair bit off and not in the field of view (300mm lens) so I used POTH to centre the star then hit "Sync" in Stellarium scope, after this the go to's were pretty accurate and always in the field of view, I did centre another target and sync on that after which they were very accurate, so happy with that now Thanks again Wes Weather was OK last night so I decided to do a rough check for cone error with my mirrorless camera and lens
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