Ad Astra Observatory

As near as I can tell, the mount is within 1 degree of being level. It’s probably within half a degree, but I’m being conservative.

That small error, probably a quarter turn of one of the pier levelling bolts, makes my polar alignment routine pure hell.

I decided tonight to “bounce back and forth” between alt and az, to see if I could head off the “dependency” between the axes that is introduced when the mount is not level.

I have been iterating for nearly 4 hours, and have overshot on each axis twice.

This is madness.