Are you talking about this view through the bolt hole (this photo from the turorial)?
He mentions this as a way to avoid taking off the valve cover (though he didn't say it that way):
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Rotate the engine by hand to 10 degrees ATDC (NOTE: you will hope to land at around 15 ATDC but start at 10 so you won't have to back up) and take off the oil fill cap. The reason the fill cap comes off is because you want to be sure it's the compression stroke and NOT the exhaust stroke (the fuel squirts in on the compression stroke). The cam lobes for #1 will be pointing up in the compression stroke (i.e. no valves held open on the number 1 cylinder).
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Since I don't need to put it back on, with a new gasket anyway, I might try both methods, that is, take the valve cover off.