The scope is mounted on an Ioptron MiniTower Pro goto mount. It is almost completely obscured behind the scope. You can see that I have made a wooden pier extension to ensure the scope does not hit the tripod legs when slewing.
The initial alignment was done as a "one star alignment” using the Sun, with the right filters in place of course. These mounts are extraordinarily accurate on a one star alignment if care is taken to get the mount level.
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Originally Posted by skysurfer
Interesting.
How did you look up those planets ?
I use the EQ mount and setting circles assisted by Stellarium or Skysafari on my cellphone to look up daylight objects using an ED 110. Very easy, although Mars (+2.0) should be tedious in daylight these days.
But last summer (end Feb) I found Mars easliy around noon rather close to Venus.
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