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Old 27-02-2009, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by kinetic View Post
Houghy,

In my backyard at least, it seems to be unavoidable.
My yard is the worst type of clay....I had to dig a pool through it!
I have a laser permanently mounted to my GEM base and it shines on
to an X on the wall of the house.

The island slab that my GEM sits on seems to move in a wet/dry season
cycle. This shows on the drift with the laser.
Fortunately, I have fine Azimuth and altitude adjustment of the GEM
tripod and a night of Drift Explorer in K3CCDTools has this fixed.

If you think any slab, at least the slab a typical backyarder lays,
is not going to move some amount, you are kidding yourself.

Steve
thanks good idea

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Originally Posted by Dennis View Post
Hmm, dragging the gear out every night then setting up and tearing down each night don’t seem too onerous now!

Cheers

Dennis
rub it in, note i havent set mine up yet
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