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Originally Posted by JethroB76
Looking great! I take it the OTA can rotate to assist in chasing the eyepiece around?
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Hi Jethro,
Yes the top half of the tube assembly rotates but at the cost of collimation. I tend to bend my neck a bit rather than rotate the scope. Most of the time I have the G Star Ex camera attached so I observe from the screen. Of the G Star Ex on this scope, I've said before that while the pics aren't pretty, they sure are capable of showing really, really faint objects even in a single 2.56 sec. frame. Great stuff for comets and supernova hunting which is what I intend to do once set up. The camera has proved itself to be excellent for this purpose in the light pollution of the suburbs and I am hoping for an extra magnituide - or even two! now I'm in a pretty dark site.
Rcihard