How to Polar Align a Skywatcher Mount
Channel: Dylan O'Donnell
Date: 2022-06-10

You can do this with any Skywatcher mount, actually any mount. But this is the Synscan hand controller process demonstrated in all it's long, dreary glory. If you're watching polar alignment videos on YouTube for fun.. well that says a lot about you really.

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