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What is a Polar Alignment Scope?

A Polar Alignment Scope is a small telescope or tube used for aligning your telescope with the North or South Celestial Pole.   This alignment is necessary in order for the telescope to track the stars.   Good tracking is a must for long exposure astrophotography, to keep the image from blurring.  It is also make slewing and tracking much easier during visual observing.

What is an EZAlign?

The EZAlign™ is a polar alignment scope.  It allows a telescope to be quickly and easily aligned with the North or South pole.  A time consuming initial alignment must be made using the star drift method.  All later alignments will be as good as this initial alignment but far less time consuming.  To do a subsequent alignment, you simply rotate the scope to align the constellation reticle with your naked eye view of the sky then adjust the telescope mount to align two stars with the reticle.  The reticle illuminator includes an automatic shutoff feature.