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New Moon
Well, the weather at this point (5 days out) says wet Friday, fine Saturday. Who knows? The good news is that we now have one completed telescope pad down and concreted in with SCP aligning channel and an E-W channel as well for your back legs. As long as your legs are equally extended, you will fall into very close to SCP alignment just by plonking the scope down. Also, the tripod should be pretty well dead horizontal too.
The pads are sized to take an EQ6 at full extension of 1500mm although I expect most imagers would set the scope a bit lower and the legs not so widely spread.
The second pad is dug, framed and sleel'd up, SCP alignment points set and ready for concrete next Saturday but it won't be usable of course for a few days at least.
Let me know if you're thinking of coming out please so I can plan ahead.
cheers
Peter.
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