With age-related vertebrae issues I could use a polarscope only with great difficulty - and even then needed a right-angled eyepiece; it was literally a pain in the neck every time I carried the kit out of my garage to set up. Using the routines written into some popular astrophotography software packages works (for the most part, though not always) when using my 80 mm refractor, but what to do when using my 150 mm Newtonian - FL 1200 mm - which has too small a field-of-view for this method? The answer is one of these electronic polarscopes: my very first trial gave good polar alignment in 15 minutes or so. I so wish I'd gone down this route from the start.

I've been doing astronomy for a number of years now but have never really managed to nail polar alignment to a satisfactory accuracy. Prior to this I had tried Sharpcap etc but still had issues. I have to say that the Polemaster has revolutionised my ability to polar align. The hardware is well made and easy to fit and the software is intuitive. First attempt took a little longer as I had to get everything set up (my initial polar alignment prior to fitting the Polemaster was very poor. a note here, when using the Polemaster, it is still necessary to do a rough visual polar alignment using the polar scope). The second time out, accurately polar aligned in 5 minutes! Definitely a thumbs up from me, and of course FLO's service was bang on, as always!

I live in a heavily light polluted area (16-32 nanowatts /cm2/sr) and can hardly see Polaris with the naked eye. In fact I don't think I have seen Polaris since I bought my PoleMaster. However despite this I have managed to use the PoleMaster to make accurate polar alignment in less than five minutes to a high enough accuracy that my tracking mount shows no sign of star trailing even with five minute plus exposures. This is going to save me hours of time and just for the saving in aggravation is an excellent product.

Amazing.
The one thing I really hate is polar alignment on my HEQ5 as I have no permanent setup. I'm class 6 Bortle light polluted, and for me, it's all too time uncomfortable and time consuming.
Even I can look at a laptop screen and make manual mount adjustments to put a square and circle together on the screen. It really is that easy and extremely accurate.
The one problem first time out was the polemaster progeam kept freezing, but there is a document on the main page of the polemaster site advising a simple windows setting change to do with USB 2.0 and all is then perfect.