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Thanks mate,
Well I setup the "beast" last night at our monthly SASI Star party.
I levelled tripod, aligned mount to SCP close as I could with a compass via the mount knob & put her all together...What a task didn't take as long second time round. Waited till it got to astronomical twilight then I could see enough Stars to proceed with a three Star alignment.
Powered up the mount which is currently running off a 12V 14ah battery, entered the correct latitude & longitude, date & time e.t.c. After all that info was entered I started three Star alignment on Alpha Centauri, Acrux last Star Achenar. Alignment successful!
It was a good start so then I went into catalogue objects ==> NGC & entered in NGC 5139 (Omega Centauri) the mount slewed in R.A. & Dec, smooth as to Omega Cen. Came into the 8mm Vixen eyepiece dead centre okay...I thought this is a good start! Then I tried something on the other side if the celestial equator over to M57 (Ring Nebula) she slewed across to the North, centring the planetary nebula in the eyepiece...This is how it went all night, very impressed. Tracking seemed okay only having to tweak the R.A. every 20min or so in 8mm eyepiece.
Eventually I'll get into imaging again with this new mount. So far I'm very happy with it!
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