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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
For visual, so far so good  Saturday was my 4th session on 3.35 and it seems to do the job, even when I'd stuck the tripod down barely in the general direction of the celestial pole (by 10 degrees!) it managed to guide me through it. So using myself as the example, it seems fairly idiot proof  I'm from up north so used to having a mag 2 star in the polar scope  |
Actually, I checked last weekend, and I'm on 3.35 too, and haven't had any major problems. I spend quite a bit of time trying to point at the SCP first (got within 1 degree in both alt and az just with visual alignment through the finder scope), and then do a 2 -star alignment and then PAE.
One of the reasons I'm becoming a bit obsessed with this is that I've been trying to see Neptune and Uranus, but when the scope tracks to that part of the sky, I'm not sure which of the bright dots in the FOV is the planet I'm after! I can convince myself that any number have a blue or green tinge.