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Old 05-12-2005, 07:21 AM
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Latest pic of my setup

Hi all.

Here's the latest pic of my imaging setup, taken last night while waiting for it to get dark.

I put a 60cm square concrete stepping stone on the grass as my observatory setup I haven't dug it in and levelled it properly yet, but once I do, i'll be putting some marks on it for where to place the EQ platform so that it's virtually perfectly aligned every time.

From that position I get a good east and north view for imaging the planets, but unfortunately I only get about 3 degrees of West sky in-between the trees.. I get an opportunity of about 30 minutes to image Venus at the moment, once it drops to around 20 degrees altitude

I get nothing to the South from there though, so I'll need to move my scope 5-10m further north to be able to view the South over the palm trees and neighbours roof.

Unfortunately the seeing was shocking again last night, so no planetary images to show for it, though I got some nice shots of the moon and venus together through the 350D. Will post them shortly.
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