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Old 01-03-2005, 07:55 AM
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For sure, I definitely wanted it installed before SPSP!

I took it out for a first light last night..

2 star align, Sirius first and then Rigel, centered them as close as I could be bothered in a 15mm eyepiece, then chose "Saturn". Swung around to the coordinates it gave me until they both said "0.00", looked in the eyepiece, and whalla, there was Saturn all but in the middle of my 15mm eyepiece! She works!

Chose M42, bang, just off the middle of the eyepiece.

Looked at a few other targets, M41, M46, M47 and some NGC open clusters around Carina (didn't take notes).

I found that (as expected) it's very accurate if you're in the same quarter of sky, but if you slew over 60 degrees or so away from where you were, it's best to realign on a known object in that part of the sky.

All in all, i'm very happy and it's going to help me chase down faint fuzzies like never before!
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