Phone Holder for Polar Alignment

[taxboy]

I've just acquired a Star Adventurer 2i tracker for landscape astro photography and discovered that polar aligning is not quite as simple as anticipated.

I've done a quick Google search and wondered if there are any UK suppliers of a phone holder similar to this please. They will ship to the UK but with carriage it makes it what I think is a little pricey for what looks a relatively simple bit of kit ?

https://www.skylabs.co.nz/post/star-tracker-polar-alignment-in-the-southern-hemisphere?srsltid=AfmBOopoD9kzDyJO0XuzXJPJadYINb4wWM1gnNtaUwY1Yd0cQRpLXniq

Any advice much appreciated

 

[Box Brownie]

I wonder if any of the UK outlets here are able to help?

Google Search

 

[hunnymonster]

I've not felt the need to have the phone stuck to the mount - just use this app

PolarFinder Pro - Apps on Google Play

Application required to perform precise night polar alignment.

play.google.com

 

[taxboy]

I've not felt the need to have the phone stuck to the mount - just use this app

PolarFinder Pro - Apps on Google Play

Application required to perform precise night polar alignment.

play.google.com

So are you essentially manually finding Polaris then tweaking by comparing the app view to your finder view ? Apologies as a newbie to this if this is an obvious question
I was hoping to get an app to put me pretty close just using my phone until I build sufficient experience

 

[hunnymonster]

Pretty much that.

On a minute by minute basis it's basically static so you can get pretty much dead on quite quickly

 

[taxboy]

Pretty much that.View attachment 485475

On a minute by minute basis it's basically static so you can get pretty much dead on quite quickly

At the moment my problem is trying to find Polaris initially!

 

[hunnymonster]

Ah, well I can't help that. The handle of the big dipper is a reasonable pointer... Patrick Moore taught me (via Sky at Night) about 45 years ago