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Old 01-11-2013, 07:43 PM
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The Mekon (John Briggs)
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Kevin, like you I am interseted in double stars. For this I found the EQ6 and synscan pretty useless as it's databse for doubles is almost non existant. I have to use my 130EDT independant of the goto and use the finder to star hop to do my double star obs.
Two years after I bought my EQ6, I was lucky enough to purchase a second hand SDM with the ArgoNavis. What a joy! the Argonavis has all the bayer, flamsteed stars and more. I often use this reflector now with a 7" off axis mask for double stars and I find this such a joy that the refractor hardly gets a run these days.
Synscan have a long way to go to build a decent database for all observers.
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