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Originally Posted by mental4astro
Hi all,
There's a few posts in the Beginners' Forum asking for some help with their new scopes. I'm happy to give a hand at my place this weekend if anyone would like to make a trip out to Maroubra in Sydney's east. Yeah I know a bit short notice, but the Moon is favourable in the later part of the evening.
Please let me know if Friday or Saturday night best suits as I can only do this the one night. I'd be looking to get things going with the scopes around 9pm.
Things I can go over include collimation, how our eyes work and observing tips, brief run down on setting up an eq mount (I have only some experience with these, but I can get you up and running), eyepieces 1.25" and 2" what's the diff and what's works and what doesn't, filters, getting good mechanical performance out of one's mount, and anything else you can think of. I don't mind if your scope is a dob, SCT, refractor or Mak, alt az or eq mounted, just bring some bikkies to munch on during the night. If the sky Gods are favourable to us, we can have a shot at different targets.
Just let me know here or via PM.
Mental.
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Hi Mental,
Terrific offer to good to pass up imo
. Count me in please if still on and not to many people overcrowding the place already. Either night is fine by me just let me know which night is chosen and I'm omw. Most likely best I just bring the 10" Dob as it's far easier to handle loading/unloading, setting up than the 12". Advice on 1 should be the same for the other.
What bikkies do you prefer? or would choc mud cake be even better
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Cheers Guy
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