Who might or should read these pages?
These page are written for all astrophotographers, who
have enough experience with the star drift alignment method :-),
like to position the the hour axis of their equatorial mount within an hour with the precision of better than 30 arc seconds on the apparent (refracted) pole. Or in short:
30"/30' - 30 arc seconds within 30 minutes
like to make celestial photographs on a routinely basis with a resolution which corresponds to the seeing of the atmosphere that is under favorable circumstances
1 arc second.
Introduction
A quick and pictorial introduction to the topic you will find in the gallery of the simulated photographs.
What will you find on this web server?
A detailed guide
to the precise set up of the hour axis of an equatorial mount beyond the star drift alignment method,
a discussion of the properties of the drift alignment method,
to the steering of the telescope drive in both axis depending on the atmosphere and the alignment of the hour axis,
how to compensate these effects.
monitor calibration
Comments questions, corrections: markus.wildi@one-arcsec.org