Having this year decided to try and take photos of stuff that I've been looking at for years I was spending a lot more time on polar alignment than I was previously. Bought this after reading/watching a few reviews. I would say this has knocked off 15 minutes from how I was aligning before and more accurate as well. Only had a for a couple of weeks and not too many clear nights yet which has actually made this an even better purchase. Simple to use as well.

Having this year decided to try and take photos of stuff that I've been looking at for years I was spending a lot more time on polar alignment than I was previously. Bought this after reading/watching a few reviews. I would say this has knocked off 15 minutes from how I was aligning before and more accurate as well. Only had a for a couple of weeks and not too many clear nights yet which has actually made this an even better purchase. Simple to use as well.

I've been getting pretty good at polar alignment by eyeballing it and using an app. The problem I found was that when polaris was in one the "In between" positions it was a little harder (I use and older NEQ6 with no graduations on the scope).

I was pretty skeptical about electronic polar scopes. I thought the polemaster was a cool idea, but the pricing put me off.

Having watched a couple of youtube vids on iPolar I was impressed how it did not require mount movement once calibrated. It is also better priced.

So with a bit of spare cash I decided to buy one. It's a game changer.

It's super simple to fit - just specify the mounting kit for your mount and it fits into your polar scope hole with some grub screws. Calibration is easy, you just move the mount as prompted.

The software is simple to use. The autozoom when you get close to the pole is really useful. Overall the software is a little basic and looks a little dated. It reminds me of something you might use to fire a torpedo down a small exhaust port or bullseye womp rats. The important thing is that it works, it's accurate and fast. My guiding graph has never looked better.

The real saving here is time. When you are fighting against clouds, short evenings and everything else astrophotography throws at you, shaving a few minutes off setup time matters. Plus you have the piece of mind that you are aligned.

I've really struggled getting decent polar alignment with our 'AZ-EQ6 GT Pro GEQ & Alt-Az' mount, with it being difficult for me to look through the polar scope & simultaneously judge how far to rotate the RA in order to get the reticule in the correct orientation. I tried fitting a webcam & converting a DLSR right angle viewer, but still never managed to get good alignment, and wasted loads of valuable time trying to do so.

Now with the iPolar, I'm easily getting within a 3-4 arcmins error, as reported by the Synscan handset after a single 2-star align and instead of wasting an hour or so it now only takes less than 10mins, including if I do a recalibration (which just involves rotating the RA & letting the software plate solve).

The software interface isn't perfect, and the end cap on the lens is a bit tight, but otherwise I can't recommend the iPolar highly enough. It's made setup a whole lot easier and a lot less frustrating. I'm no longer getting any star trails when imaging and the GoTo now seems to center targets much more successfully.