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I picked up my 12 inch Skywatcher Goto dob a couple of weeks ago.... in a nutshell........ absolutely awesome. The strut arrangement makes transporting this scope so much easier than a solid tube. As for recollimating, very minor tweaks required......which would be the case with a solid tube anyway. As for the goto and tracking...... simply superb. Last night, I noticed there was a break in the cloud, so decided to do a quick second light. Total setup time was literally 5 minutes. I did a 2 star alignment on Alpha Centauri then Canopus and I was ready to go. I was more interested in tracking and goto checks last night rather than "the view". The goto was better than I would have hoped for. Some of the objects that I targetted were Omega centauri, Centaurus A, Eta, Tarantula, Tuc 47, NGC3918 to name a few and every object was within the inner 50% of the fov of my 24mm Panoptic ( I did not check to ensure the mount was 'level' on initial setup). I left the scope tracking on Eta, and when I came back 20 minutes later, it was still fairly central.
Absolutely love this scope. Only down side is that it is A LOT louder than my EQ6...... Absolutely hanging to get the scope to dark skies!!
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