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I regularly take my 120mm APO and all the gear out to a dark site to image, and certainly, with my smaller rig, taking it 45mins west for a 4~5hr imaging run is SIMPLE, as the whole rig runs on 12v DC power, it runs perfectly fine off my battery.
I'm lucky my yard has a nearly clear view in all directions. I can only image down to maybe 45° in the West, due to a tree line, and the neighbors TV ariel interferes with anything that is below 35° to the NNE. Other than that, I can lock onto M78 or M42 for example as soon as it hits 40° altitude (I choose not to image below that for seeing reasons) and image for about 6hrs uninterupted...
During winter when we get ~9hrs of darkness, I was able to get ~8.5hrs of data in a single night on M8+M20 (using a wider scope I was happy to shoot from 35° alt in the east through to 40° in the west, with a mount that does not do meridian flips)
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