Hi everyone welcome back to the channel and today I'm going to do a short video on a polar alignment tool by Optron which is the eye polar. It's been around a long time but I've only recently bought one but I find it such an excellent tool for polar alignment I wanted to share it with you. My name is Glen and you're watching AstroBloak. So the eye optron eye polar there are other makes out there you've got the pole master by QHY but a friend of mine a Simon of Simon's Astro I was doing an imaging session with him in Suffolk not so long ago and he's got a few of these fitted to his rigs and I watched him do his polar alignment and it was so quick and easy I thought I've got to have a go at one of these and now I've bought one I think they're really worthwhile they make life a lot easier so when you buy the camera they come in kits with different mounts sort of mountings for different mounts so you can fit them in so you've got a mount here for the EQ6 cut a little Allen key screws just to lock everything in and you're there. Once it's in the mount there's a very quick process to align the tool so it will basically you take a dark frame so you need something like a cap to go on top you take a dark frame then what it will do is it will take an image of the stars and it will do a plate self after that you rotate the mount through a minimum of 45 degrees and it will plate self again and you also include in that your location your latitude and longitude once you've done that the eye polar is set up on your mount and as long as you don't remove it you don't need to go through that process again when you start up by polar it'll ask you for a dark frame you can take a fresh one if you want or you can just reload the last one that was used which is what I do the beauty of this is you do not need to have to see Polaris to be able to polar align because it only needs a number of stars to be able to plate self you could actually be pointing slightly away and it will use those stars and it will know which way for you to move everything so it's a really excellent tool it's nice and quick and I've found it to be extremely accurate so let's show you it in use so we need some dark skies don't we so the other polar is fitted to the mount take the cap off and the first thing we're going to do is show you how to set the eye polar up and then we can do our polar alignment not so quickly every night we want to use it okay so I'm using Google remote desktop and if I call up the eye polar program okay so we're there and we can now press connect and it's initialize now when we first get the eye polar what I'm actually going to do is you put in your site location and then you can input the center of the camera so you would do that and it asks you to take a dark frame with the cap on and it sets itself up onto your mount now once you're set and you've got your dark frame in it will then start doing its exposure and you can set that so that you're getting a good number of stars and what it does is it plate cells now this is where we want the center of the mount aiming and at the moment it's up here so we know it needs to come down and left and basically using the adjustments on the mount so we'll start with the down and as it plate cells it will replace this circle so if you find it is not got enough stars it will warn you of how many stars it's got you can change the exposure time so we're quite fair way off of polar alignment here I've not been putting my mount in the same position so that's most probably why I do want to get a bit more of a permanent I might actually think I'm putting another appear out here but we shall see so we're just bringing the mount down a bit and we're getting close to the heights now I'm going to do the adjustment just going to turn it one way see where I'm going the correct way which is left which is and what you'll see is as we get close the actual target will change size and get really big for fine adjustment we've got to come down a little bit more and of all the things I've used for polar alignment this is without doubt the best so just little adjustments now nothing big needed and you'll when we actually get there we get it bang on it'll go green so we're now really small movements now I'm going to do anything big there's a little bit more so I know not much is happening but I don't like to turn it too much at all I just do it a little bit at a time thinking it's come down a little bit that was too much needs to come left just to see that we're almost there there we go where it's gone green and there's our polar alignment and there we're ready to go so I can actually close this now that's the polar alignment done so now everything's polar aligned and it's now starting it's routine to do it's night of imaging so that's basically it is not a lot to it it's a very useful tool very quick and simple to use it's definitely saved me a lot of time when I've been out and about polar alignment this rig so if I go to a dark side somewhere all I have to do is make sure I'm roughly pointed north make sure that my mount is level and then straight away I can get it polar aligned within a few minutes and I'm ready to go and as I say I've tested the accuracy of this I've used the guide assistant in PhD2 and it's given really good accurate results on the polar alignment from the drift that's been shown on that so I know that it works well and I know that the polar alignment is good because my guiding is fine and my styles are nice and round I found it to be an excellent addition to my mount and I would highly recommend one so if you're thinking about getting something like this consider the eye-optune eye polar as it's a really nice piece of kit so until next time please take care and I'd like to wish you all close guys