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Had a good weekend with the Argo Navis on 12" dob at Snake Valley. I'm very happy with it for my purposes. Finderscope is now attracting cobwebs, Stellarium has been put into the background and the lappie is primarily playing music, green laser pointer is staying in pocket!
Not the best conditions - set up on my usual half bricks on a plastic tarp on a few inch long grass - I could feel some rock'n'roll in the mount. I'll be happier on a hard surface. But still aligned well with basic Fix Alt Ref and two stars. If I found the targets were coming up a bit far from centre of 35mm Panoptic, I just did a quick "Mode Align" on the object and carried on. Hope that is a reasonable approach to take.
Randomly toured constellations or "20 deg around that spot" for non-stellars. Saw many new objects. It made finding small planetaries a breeze!
How is everyone else going?
Last edited by erick; 03-12-2008 at 05:22 PM.
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