AZGTI dovetail mount

WARNING: this hack, while very easy to perform will most likely void your AZGTI's warranty. I cannot be held responsible for any damage on your mount.

The AZGTi is a great little mout, perfect for nomade astrophotography save one little detail: it has no easy way of performing a neat polar alignment. A commonly used workaround is to use a Polemaster. After a first, rather complicated way of doing so (uploaded on Thingiverse), I re designed a v2, based on an idea seen on the new AM5 mount: simply put a vixen mini dovetail shoe on the mount and fix the Polemaster on a 3D printed support at this standard. This later part is available elsewhere on the site (https://www.printables.com/model/176993-polemaster-support-for-dovetail-mounting-base).

Installing is very easy:

• remove the batteries
• locate the green line just below the AZGTi lettering. It has the very good idea of being perfectly horizontal and measuring exactly 4 cm
• Drill two 3 mm holes at exactly 1 cm from each end of this line = exactly separated by 2 cm (see picture)
• Fix the support and the dovetail mount using flat headed 3 mm screws, some washers and square nuts (see pictures)

Then you can either perform a rough polar alignment using a red dot finder or a fine one using a polemaster