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Latitude is your position north or south of the Equator. Lines, or parallels, are drawn around the Earth at intervals. The North Pole is assigned the latitude 90Âº north and the South Pole latitude 90Âº south. Lines of longitude, or meridians, are drawn a little differently.
In fact in this guide we wont be aiming at the NCP we'll aim at the Pole Star-Polaris. Luckily in the Northern Hemisphere Polaris is very close to the NCP and provides a good enough 'fix' for observing. The basic aim of Polar Alignment is to align the telescope mounts Right Ascension (RA) axis to Polaris.The picture to the left shows the RA Axis of a standard equatorial mount and the motion the axis operates in.our Declination scale may have been preset at the factory in which case it should read 90 degrees, if not ignore the DEC scale and just set the telescope so that its in line with its RA axis. You can see on the picture to the left below that the telescope tube is in the same line/direction as its RA axis.