[Kokatha man]

Hi again (again) Gary - thought I'd best post this whilst insomnia was still working: having hoped to check out Venus and Jupiter (ha ha) before daybreak.

Having finally bothered to critique my assertions (hey it's better than paying for therapists and maybe I can spend some of the savings on AA gear!) I see the fatal flaw in my nonsense.

Whilst it still seems to me that with the parameters I've previously described I can rotate the baseboard of the Dob to a point where the scope could be defining a specific Hour Angle/Right Ascension, it would be, because of the Dob's physical construction, only aligning with one tiny point along that RA's meridian .

Because the Dob cannot "sweep" along that meridian (unlike the EQ with its' specifically arranged and aligned dual axes) - the validity for targetting using such aforementioned circles becomes nonsensical.)

Oh well, a thousand apologies and perhaps my one consolation is the bit about a straight Dob being an EQ at the pole: not sure if I'm going to pursue that option of maximizing the plain Dob's potential...

Regards, Darryl.