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Hi Terry!
I had a group of school kids at Copeton Dam recently, we didnt see much the night before (clouded out) but i managed to roughly polar align my C8 using a compass, then i used my Astronomy 2009 Ephemeris to find Geocentric positions of the Sun (as i don't have GOTO). I used an indirect method to find the sun in the finder (hand over the eyepiece of finder; with cap on the main scope of course) then used my setting circles to set posi to the Sun, then found Venus position in the book, swung the scope to position and found it in the finder, Voila!
The kids had a good look, and i even showed them with the naked eye, and then i went on to find Sirius then i had to go to work! They all enjoyed it pretty well!
It's always fun finding stars in daytime!
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