Im unaware of an equatorial mount that will have an initial DEC axis position of 90 degress from polaris. Every mount has an assumed starting position prior to sky/star alignment. If you are using a polar scope like the EQ6R and you have to rotate the DEC shaft to see through to align, you MUST move the DEC shaft back to the Polaris pointing direction. Even still, that initial star alignment must be repeated after ASPA and the mount will again move itself to the switches or must be manually moved to home position. Yes, some polar alignment procedures like Celestron's ASPA relies on a mount that is preliminarily aligned to the stars. For my EQ6R, I have to manually loosen the clutches and move the mount to the home position prior to commencing the sky alignment procedure. For my mounts, the CGX has home switches and before the sky alignment is performed, the mount is moved to the switches.
What brand/model mount do you have? Nevertheless, the polar alignment exercise is usually independent of syncing the mount. What do you do at this point? Just find a target and press control 1 in Stellarium? Or somehow I need to point the telescope at Polaris also. So, once my scope is connected in Stellarium, the mount was pointed at Polaris but the telescope is still pointed 90 to Polaris. So, the telescope has a 90 degree turn from the PA scope to give the PA scope a view to Polaris. My question is as follows: the telescope was just PAed. I had a helluva time getting CDC to force J2000 and finally agree with where the scope was pointing compared to Stellarium, APT or EQTour, etc. I recommend you stick to a J2000 EPOCH system as I dont think many of the platesolver apps use current day.
#STELLARIUM SETUP SOFTWARE#
You may want to read a little about EPOCH systems between the two and any other software that depends on uniform coordinates. Depending on my mood per day, I will use either application. CDC is actually easier to put in rectangles or circles that represent your eye pieces and scope dimensions. Cartes Du Ciel (CDC) is much easier on the resources and I think the interface is easier to use. And it consumes alot of computer resources (memory and cpu-time) when its running on a minipc adjacent to the scope. I love how Stellarium looks and feels, but the pop up guis to command the scope are a bit bulky to my taste.
Assuming you have the ASCOM platform, EQMOD and Stellarium installed, this will step you through the process to link it to your scope.
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