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Old 31-12-2013, 12:01 AM
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doppler (Rick)
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I know what you mean, laying on the ground trying to focus etc. is not much fun. I have my achro mounted on a 8" gem newt. I focus the camera on something easy then use the newt as a guide scope. If I use the achro on its own I have a little 10" screen net book to use with live view.
ps its been about 30 years since I took my first image, 50mm f2.8 35mm film slr piggy backed on my 8" newt (yea I still have my first scope) and it took 5 min to get a reasonable image(single sub). Digital is so much easier to get started but a lot more complicated to master, lights darks bias stacking rgb etc. (stacking jpeg's is fine for me)
Rick

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