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Originally Posted by lookus
have been reading the forum. my question probably should have been posted there.
i am loving the scope though. setting up the mount is no problem, although i have yet to do a proper polar alignment via the mount reticle. i am finding that all quite difficult to understand. my biggest problem is having to spend so much time on my knees with a kinked neck trying to locate stars through the finder scope. i am looking into adding a laser finder to help get me close before kneeling on the cold damp ground to hone in on the target. yes. i must say that seems to be the only part about star watching that i dislike.
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The joy of star hopping.
I used a rubber backed camping rug on the ground to reduce this. (now I have goto and an observatory so don't suffer with wet knees
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