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Re: [UncensoredTakGroup] polar align

I am not sure if these will help, but ...

http://www.polaralign.com/daytime_polar_alignment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Alignment

http://www.weasner.com/etx/ref_guides/2009/daytime_alignment.html

Good luck!

Chris A

Dark Horse Observatory
www.darkhorseobservatory.org

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From: "Tim" <thart40@...>
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Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:43:03 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [UncensoredTakGroup] polar align

is thre a way to do this during the day? if so how

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Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:56 pm

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is thre a way to do this during the day? if so how...	Tim thartcfl	Jul 18, 2009 7:16 pm
I am not sure if these will help, but ... http://www.polaralign.com/daytime_polar_alignment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Alignment ...	cabissi@... cja2173	Jul 18, 2009 9:13 pm
Assuming that you're familiar with drift aligning, the answer is a qualified "Yes". There's usually a lot of light available so that the residual tracking...	Bruce D noisejammer	Jul 19, 2009 6:44 pm
Bruce's method is pretty good. Here's a shadow-based method I ran across recently: http://www.polaralign.com/daytime_polar_alignment Tony...	ahwatukeejoe	Jul 20, 2009 4:32 am
I have once had the need to set up a "window observatory" to track a comet, with no access to Polaris, and I did it during the day. I did not have any solar...	Filipe Dias fil_days	Jul 20, 2009 11:41 am