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Old 02-03-2010, 07:10 PM
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kinetic (Steve)
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Yer standard Omega C and Jewelbox Lums

Lucky I have a lot of patience.....
I captured the second result from last night as
the seeing improved about midnight.

Just as I started to save the set live from the camera
I stepped on the hand control which was in the darkness
on the floor of the dome. I expected a disaster as it has
parallel port lines inside it mixed with a few different voltages
for clutch and webcam floodlight etc.

Nothing was affected, the scope tracked beautifully for about
half an hour as I got this second set.
When I went to reframe the next object because the seeing was
on the improve...no high speed slew on the handpad!
It would have to wait till morning when I could see what was broken.
Better to retire than risk killing the scope-drive lappy PPort.

Steve
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