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Old 09-10-2007, 12:48 PM
nlmarsh
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Denmark West Australia
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Astrophotography with a Dob!

Having partially absorbed all the good advices below, my present approach is:
... to get the Argo-Navis & learn how to handle it on the simple GSDob, (any photography to be done pseudo-movie intermittent fashion with a Toucam or other camera) ...
... then make or get an equatorial wedge, from US if really necessary ...
... then drive the wedge with a long screw thread & nut pushed by a friendly mouse, as done by some folk in the SouthWest Astron group here.

We just might be going North for a year, so the change of latitude from Denmark's -35deg to maybe Kununurra's -15deg could be interesting for the wedge, but the reduction in cloud cover would be fantastic.

But before all this, I really do need to let it all digest a bit while I get back to my studies, , trying to avoid letting the EQ6 become a sex object that I simply can't do without!!!

Best to all ... Neil.
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