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Originally Posted by Wavytone
Well done, indeed.
If the insane weather would finally give me a chance I'll try aiming BigMak at it, now that I have the backfocus where I like it, collimated and ready to rock.
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Thanks Nick!
Hopefully you'll get a chance to aim BigMak at it soon.
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Originally Posted by skysurfer
Nice catch !
But you can simply evade the atmospheric dispersion issues: look up the planet in full daylight, in most cases (unless close to inferior conjunction as will happen on 11 November) it is bright enough to show up in the bright daylight sky.
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Thank-you!
Yes that would be the way to go in theory. In practice it's not so easy for me at least as I'm not comfortable with leaving my scope set up from the night before (after rebuilding our house we lost part of our fence so the backyard is completely open to the street at present). Not sure about doing an alignment on objects during the day - I assume it's possible?