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Originally Posted by JATOM
Thanks Russell and Raymo, always grateful for knowledge, however, I think you may be getting ahead of me.
I intend getting an AZ-EQ mount which from my understanding is one mount with two brains (happy to have it explained better to me). My journey begins on the AZ side exploring planets, then moving on to further objects (over time) before moving on to the EQ side.
I do understand what you're saying about "tube rotation" but wouldn't the tube only rotate 90 degrees in a six hour period anyway and you should have a start position that would take that into consideration? (remember I'm a noob, so I see things 'simplictically').
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Yes you are correct that the tube will only rotate 90 over 6 hours.... but only if it tracking a single object! With a newtonian telescope on an EQ mount, each time you slew to a new object (and if doing visual you will never spend 6 hours on one object! At least at the start you will be checking out things all over the sky.) the eyepiece will end up in a new position. I have an EQ/AZ mount and have only tried it once in AZ mode and it worked fine. That was with a solar refractor not a Newt so I would be interested to hear how it goes.
BTW, I know what you are saying about the motions of a dob, it is counter intuitive at first, but you do get used to it after a while.
Malcolm