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Old 15-05-2006, 12:51 PM
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iceman (Mike)
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Non-tracking (!) Jupiter from Saturday night

Well you may have read of my broken platform.. I am still crying about it.

Seeing was better than it has been for ages on Saturday night, and I couldn't even take advantage of it. Not as good as my eyepiece view remembered, but it was still good.

To show something from the night, I stuck in the 3x barlow and used the tried and tested non-tracking dob imaging method Gawd it was horrible, I hope to never have to resort to this again.

I was so frustrated I only did a quick hand focus as it whizzed through in 6.5 seconds. Recorded 3 avi's and gave up.

Here's the result.

This is my last image until my platform is fixed!
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