Hi Balcony Astrophotographers,
I have been able to get polar alignement by offsetting the start position in a way that, as the Seestar turns 270 degrees counter clockwise, it will point to some area that is not my upper neighboor balcony. It will need three points around the RA axis, I guess 60 degrees total like for the horizontal calibration, so account for that also. Once you adjusted your azimuth and altitude, you are ready to go.
The tricky part is the first go to, as it is completely offset. So you need to find an object that the seestar will mistakenly point in a visible sky area.
It will go there and do a first solve, and then will try to get to the real position.
It will adjust (a lot) and potentially point a wall or whatever obstacle.
At this point you SYNCHRONIZE MANUALLY EVEN IF POINTING AN OBSTACLE, and do a new go to this time to your desired object. Now it will approach correctly the object, solve, and eventually center the object.
I had many clouds so couldnāt really do a meaningful efficiency test, but it seems to work.
This is the awkward initial position, that in my situation will allow to get the polar alignement deviation not pointing at zenith (upper balcony in my case).
And the dovetail bar offsetā¦
Stevan
