How to polar align Sky Watcher Star Adventurer?

5 years 3 months ago #626383 by Rick Larin
I just bought one of these things and it came with no manual.  I jumped on YouTube and not finding a who lot on how to set these things up.   Particularly to polar align this.  Actually I did find one video, but it was from 100 years ago and seemed very dated.  

Particularly if you can't see the North Star, then what?  Can you even align this thing? 

Thanks for the help!

Rick 


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5 years 3 months ago #626532 by Peter P
This should help you out:



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5 years 3 months ago #626533 by Peter P
Another one



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5 years 3 months ago #626534 by Peter P
AND another one...



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5 years 3 months ago #626535 by Peter P
AND another one ...




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5 years 3 months ago #626555 by Mason Latka
So I just watched one of these,  so if you use this you can take longer exposures of the skies with out getting star trails.  That is pretty cool.  So what do you do if there are partly clouds out and you can't see the north star? Actually I think that is what the original question was asking.  


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5 years 3 months ago #626707 by Stanly

Peter P wrote: Another one



This guy is pretty good, but he is selling a course for $100 to use this.  Have you taken this course?

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5 years 3 months ago #626728 by Crazyguy
Didn't know there were courses out there on how to use these things.  Something you would expect Star Adventurer peeps to have available.  I bought one, nearly 2 years ago, and haven't used because I could never get the thing aligned.  

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5 years 3 months ago #626877 by Ben Vanderbilt
A teaser!  ha ha ha

I wonder which system this guy prefers over the others?


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5 years 3 months ago #626895 by Joslyn
Here's a better video that covers the polar alignment part of it



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5 years 3 months ago #627275 by Frost Photography
One of the better videos for Star adventurer.  Good watch!

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5 years 3 months ago #627388 by Chuck Liley
Is that iOptron SkyGuider Pro Camera sitting on a Skywatcher base plate in that last video?  


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5 years 3 months ago #627467 by Jerrid
So how does a Star Adventure compare to to the opitron pro one?


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5 years 3 months ago #627648 by Rick Larin
Wow, good tips here guys.  Thank you


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4 years 2 months ago #675956 by astrofan
(…) So what do you do if there are partly clouds out and you can't see the north star? Actually I think that is what the original question was
asking.   (…)


You can see how to polar align without seeing polaris in the video from 3'50".


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