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Old 12-02-2009, 10:37 PM
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let you in on a secret, normally you cant see the octans only in the best of dark skies and knowing what your looking for will net you a occular view of them without aid.

easiest way is to use your finder scope or binos to finnd the shepards crook. and the octans are very close to that

for a rough alignment if you set your finderscope to your main tube precicely then use the finderscope to line up on the crook. using your lat and dec adjustments to move the scope you will find it. and in your polar scope/finderscope you can see the octans from perth metro....
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