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The sixteen finally gets some more light
Buying a farm was supposed to get me some local permanent dark sky access, but between work, family and the farm the 16" has seen little work until recently. It has been so long that some of the sky looked foreign to me.
I made the changes to the dec drive and now it's pointing accuracy gets galaxies on the 1.4MP chip with half sky slews. That is very handy when you are lost and star hopping is a struggle.
I also made some changes to the moving secondary cage, to make focusing a little more accurate but I haven't exposed that to photons yet.
Astrofest next week, but I won't be taking the horse shoe this year as I won't be staying there long enough to justify moving it. Observatory is next on the cards.
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