Meade LX70 Polar Alignment Scope

[Music] hello i'm brian with mead instruments and we're going to show you how to polar align your german equatorial mount this is an essential part of the telescope setup and how to polar align your mount is one of the more common questions we get at mead i'm going to be demonstrating polar alignment on this lx85 mount but most of what i show you will also be applicable to just about any other german equatorial or we'll simply call eq mount for short please note this content is going to focus on use in the northern hemisphere polar lining in the southern hemisphere is a little trickier because there isn't an easy reference point to the celestial pole as we have in the northern hemisphere using the star polaris which i'll talk more about later instead the observer in the southern hemisphere would use a small group of stars located near the celestial pole and use that as their reference p