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5. Northern Hemisphere configuration
5.1. Alignment with Polaris
Point the mount to the Polaris. It is not important to be exactly
aligned with the Polaris– a rough alignment is fine. Upon installing
the supplied polar finder (B) we will look in more detail on how to
have the star in the centre of the polar finder (B) field of view.
5.2. To align the mount to Polaris with more precision slide the polar finder (B) to the polar finder holder (#1).
5.3. Peek through the polar finder (B) and centre Polaris in the visual field.
Turn the tripod’s fine-adjustment levellers to do so. Please read the
following section for more details on how to correctly use the MiniTrack
Quattro NS and the importance of correct balance.
How to identify Polaris?
Polaris is not the brightest star in the sky but still easy to identify. Look up
to the north and try to find the Big Dipper (constellation). This is a very
recognisable constellation. Polaris is about six times the distance and
direction of two of its brightest stars – Merak and Duhbe.
