Want a new bracket for polar aligning, may as well make it yourself....

While the way I was polar aligning I outlined early last year works well for me, I have wanted a way to do it with the phone actually mounted on the tracker and while there are solutions out there I was never quite satisfied. So decided I may as well design what I wanted and print one out.

Now this is never as easy as it seems and I am up version 7 now after spending hours watching YouTube to learn how to use one and then a second design package, realising my measurements were wrong, dealing with the simple fact I am not very bright, etc… But finally got to something that can be used, and took it with me on a shoot down near Meningie.

Above is a 60 second untracked and tracked shot done with a 20mm lens zoomed in by 200%. In short I think the alignment using the new bracket was pretty good. The image below seemed to work ok.

Now to start working on version 8!