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I must admit that I would have found it much more difficult with out using an updated planetarium program (in this case Autosuite). It was an invaluable assistance in detemining angular separations from saturn and Pollux and Flora and Herculinia and consequently suitable lenses focal lengths. As it was I could have imaged through anything up to 500 -600 mm and still been able to get both in the field of view.
Its also convinced me that I need to clear some trees around my place (at least the bloody great leopard tree on my nortern boundary) so I can prime focus through my LX200 in equatorial. I can't see low enough to the east, to drift align and the only place I can use iteration alignment I cant see much of the ecliptic (about 10 degrees thanks to the leopard tree, luckily its a bit of a weed up here and its growing over powerlines.)
Thanks for the comments guys
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