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Originally Posted by AstroJunk
Hi to Rich and John, welcome to the South side - and as a Expat Geordie myself, I have to let you into the bad news. Not only did we get these scopes first, but the sky is dark and saggitarius is overhead! 
(for the locals, where I grew up, Antares was near the horizon, and Saggitarius a myth!) |
Aye, and I supposed you're also gannin to remind me that it's much warmer over in Oz as well lol. Well this Geordie fella is is gutted that i'm in the wrong Newcastle on the Wrong side of the world, or I would be able to get my hands on the shiny EQ8.
Over here, the main European distributor OVL, isn't giving anyone any info on release dates or prices, so none of the suppliers can even take pre-orders.
I'm moving to new house in Whitley Bay in 2 weeks, so hopefully there might be a shiny new EQ8 ordered, to go with the new house.
Really impressed with the new 2 arc secs peak to peak measurements, can't wait to see guided performance. Also interested in seeing how good the pointing accuracy is.
Does the mount have it's own polar alignment routine ?
Rich.