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Welcome to the SDM family, Geoff! You have many wonderful months (and years) of pleasure ahead of you. She looks absolutely gorgeous!
Regarding Servocat, I don't have it either. Sure, it would be nice sometimes to have tracking, but my SDM scope is such a joy to handle that I actually enjoy manually pushing the scope to keep up with the object, and the motion of the scope is so smooth that it is no effort at all. Any slight vibrations from moving the scope settle almost instantaneously after it is pushed, so observing at 360x or more is fine. At lower powers, of course, the object stays in the FOV long enough to get a nice long view without moving it at all.
I had Peter pre-drill my scope ready for servo-cat in the coming years. I figured at this stage I would rather the $$ for eyepices. That is a real factor given that servo-cat is $2,500!
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