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Thanks for the comments guys; this was first light at our club's dark sky site for my new Tak EM200 mount. It took me over 1 hour to polar align using the built in polar alignment scope (PAS), as the FOV is much smaller than the Vixen's PAS in my GPDX and I just could not find Sigma Octans. Eventually I did, but by then the air was beginning to saturate and a bank of fog could be seen to the East.
Anyhow, I played cat and mouse with the fog all night and early morning as the guidechip in the ST7E valiantly tried to autoguide through the fog!
Although the Vixen GPDX is a great mount, the Tak is in a league of its own and I am looking forward to seeing what it can do once I am more familiar with using it.
Cheers
Dennis
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