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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I have been thinking about how to help.
I expect you have star charts and apps etc but have a look at this YouTube video...it is one of many but you may find it helpful for findi g objects....particularly if you have a printed out widefield photo handy...there are many vids for finding objects ...personally I like the approach.
https://youtu.be/5M3F4jUorCk |
I use Stellarium, Sky Safari, on my 10.1inch Android tablet, and a compass app, and a bubble level app, on my Android phone, and Stellarium on my PCs. The phone has gyroscope and magnetic compass sensors, whereas the tablet doesn't, so I use the phone for lining up the alt/az on the scope.
I prefer Stellarium for looking for targets, due to it being able to simulate the impact of light pollution.
Sky Safari is more like a planisphere in that it cannot filter out a lot of stuff you simply cannot see with the naked eyes, when you have light pollution, for lining up your scope.
Currently, my area of Brisbane is around Bortle 8, so there's a lot of stuff I can't see with my naked eyes to line my red dot finder up on.
In the YouTube video you linked to, you get to see a bit of a chart at the 53 to 57 seconds mark.
Checking it against Stellarium, you have to rotate that map image anti-clockwise by 90 degrees, to get it to Australian current.
You'll need to be looking approx South-East, and about 27 degrees up, at about 11PM AEST to roughly line up on where it is.