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This video is for beginning astrophotographers who need really good polar alignment and can’t see Polaris from their shooting location
Why I made this video:
I HAD to be able to polar align without Polaris because of my need to photo from my porch during Covid19 “stay the hell at home” period.
Drift Alignment was my only solution if I wanted to get some photos while stuck at home.
Problem was I had tried a number of times before and only had MASSIVE failure! Because I had no idea:
• What the expected result of moving the mount controls would be in both in magnitude and reaction.
• I was totally unaware of how long to expect this process to take in all, and how long to get a result from your adjustments.
This dual layer of uncertainty made it initially impossible to figure out why it wasn’t working.
Well now I HAD to make it work. So I looked on KZbin and found a video “Polar Alignment Without Polaris” in which the guy showed how you could get a good polar alignment using a combination of a smartphone app and the Drift Align routine in PHD2.
Now I had actually seen this work and that was huge but the problem was that this guy’s mount was actually pretty close to polar alignment already, but I didn’t have that luxury. I wanted to make it work from not very closely aligned at all.
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I realize that this video is too freaking long but I wanted to do it in near real-time so one can understand how long it takes to see the results of your adjustments. If you don't feel like sitting through the entire hour and a half, I have posted the script on my website at: www.billtheskyg....
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Music List of songs in this video with Links:
1: "The Shadow” composed by Fareed Haque. Original version by Garaj Mahal on the “Blueberry Cave” Album. This version by the CCM Jazz Orchestra featuring Fareed Haque in 2014. Spotify link: open.spotify.c.... Recorded/Mixed/Mastered by Bill Gwynne at the University of Cincinnati Studios.
2: "Danilo’s Descarga" composed by Dan Barger. Local Cincinnati release only in 2009 as performed by Acapulco. Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Bill Gwynne at Ultrasuede Studios
3. “Eleuthra" composed by Monty Alexander, featuring Othello Mollineaux-steel drum. Performed by Michelle Gwynne on harp from her “Just Add Wings” CD. Many thanks to the fine Cincinnati musicians for their work on this track: Mark Wolfley-drums; Mike Sharfe-bass; Charlie Schweitzer-percussion and of course to Othello for his mastery of the steel drum. This arrangement by Bob Elkjer. Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Bill Gwynne at Group Effort Sound Studios.
4: "Furley’s Comet" composed by Paul Hogan and performed live by Ray’s Music Exchange at “Play by Play” in Silverton, OH in 2015. Recorded live, mixed and mastered by Bill Gwynne at Person to Person Media Studios
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5: "Green Electricity” by Eclipse Movement-2012 Recorded, mixed and mastered by Bill Gwynne at Group Effort Studios and Ultrasuede Studios.
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