"Michael D. Sparks" wrote:
> Then came Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. I spent from dusk to
> dawn each night trying my best to reproduce the alignment results achieved
> so easily on Monday night. The biggest problem I had was that after going
> through the same meticulous setup every object I would go to was offset in
> R.A. by two thirds of the distance from the center of the finder scope to
> the edge of the field of view of the finder scope. The R.A. offset never
> disappeared or even diminished.

> Any thoughts or suggestions however elementary or sophisticated would be
> greatly appreciated.

Mike-- there is an extensive discussion of polar alignment in the Topical
Archives at:
<http://www2.austin.cc.tx.us./astro-ES/AstroDesigns/MAPUG/PrAltAz1.htm>
and
<http://www2.austin.cc.tx.us./astro-ES/AstroDesigns/MAPUG/PrAltAz2.htm>
Take special notice of the methods detailed by Philip Perkins and Chris Heapy.
Believe the solution lies in their step-by-step procedures.

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and Dobsonian telescopes.
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