Huh! Wonder why it's whacked for me, then. Something about the CEM70? Well, it's not really an issue. I use the PAA as a backup and quantitative assessment of my iPolar solution now anyway.

However, I was just reading up on the no-polaris alignment and was gobsmacked. That is quite the feature, my friend. Can't wait to try it out -- it literally opens new horizons for me, i.e. in my tree-cave back yard I may be able to move around until I have a patch of sky that includes a target, rather than just using the tiny slice from which I can see Polaris.

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