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Originally Posted by Ukastronomer
What you have failed to consider is the fact that you have no idea if any other astronomers locally to you may be imaging and could have spent hours doing so only to have the work ruined by a laser
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Oh really ? No worse than a plane flying over or having the ISS pass overhead. They’d only lose one or two subs.
Having had one a while back lasers don’t make great finders for several reasons, plus the safety issue.
The one application where imho they could help - via a polar axis scope - is to show where the polar axis is pointing on the sky.