Super Polaris Mount

I have a Vixen Super Polaris mount and I'm wanting to find out where to put polaris for my alignment. I do everything of leveling the telescope stand, pointing it towards polaris, and setting up the day/month and hour. I know since the mount is from the late 80's or early 90's I can't put polaris in the small circle since polaris has moved over the years.

Here is a rough diagram of what I see through the polaris scope. This was setup from Oct. 26 2010 at around 1930hrs pacific time.

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My apologies if this insults you but it's worth asking. Do you have your mount altitude dial locked down at the proper setting for your location?

I'll dig more when I get home but I came across this, might have some useful info:

http://arnholm.org …olar_alignment/​index.html

Polaris has moved about 3 arc minutes since 1990. I think that it's pretty safe to say that using your polaris scope will be close enough.

Right at the tip of the red arrow. I have an Atlas EQ-G and I see the same etched image looking through the polar scope.

One thing I use that has helped alot is the Kochab method to align the scope. In short you rotate your polar scope in its housing so the line I marked in blue is aligned with your counterweight bar. (READ UP ON THIS BEFORE YOU DO IT) Then when you go to align the scope, make your counterweight bar draw a line from Polaris to Kochab. Then put Polaris in the circle shown by the red arrow.

Done.

Here's some good info:
http://www.nightskyima​ges.co.uk/polar_alignm​ent.htm

This link has pictures (the second one is good):
http://www.thestardeck​observatory.com/Polara​lign.html

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