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Originally Posted by brian nordstrom
Look at these photo's , I was set up looking at the moon and Venus in under 10 miniutes , the 20 and 22 inchers were ready about 30 miniutes after this photo was taken ,,, if lucky ..
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If that was the case those telescopes are a very poor design, or your friends are painfully slow at setting their scopes up.
Here is a link to Alan Dyer's image of the observing field after the scopes were set up at last weeks Ozsky event at Coonabarabran.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/amazingsky/13574066573/
Lachlan McDonald and I were the first to set up scopes.
Lachlan and I set up
30"/F4.6 SDM
25"/F5 Obsession
3 x 18"/F4.5 Obsession Classics
18"/F4.2 Obsession Ultra Compact
14"/F4.5 SDM
It took us less than 70 minutes to set up those 7 telescopes, which included pegging down tarps under my 2 scopes.
Andrew Murrell arrived a bit later and it took Andrew just over 30 minutes to set up his 25"/F5 Obsession and his 18"/F4.5 Obsession.
Your friends obviously mixed a lot of talking in with the setting up.
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Originally Posted by brian nordstrom
I did have my (sold) Tak M210 at 806x on Saturn one night and will never forget it ,, but it was driven , I can only imagine what 1025x on a DOB was like ,, 4 seconds between nudges ?  .
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My dobs all track very nicely at high powers. They all have GOTO and Servocat Tracking. 1050X in the 18" Obsession is a walk in the park.
Cheers,
John B