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Old 15-11-2011, 02:40 AM
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bmitchell82 (Brendan)
Newtonian power! Love it!

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My limits I have no issue of walking away, once user error had been worked out of it (which it now has). I had my scope at a recent deep sky trip where i would come back and visit every now and then eg hour to do a refocus check and let it go again while i was roaming around chatting to people.

When I have my scope set up at home I do set and forget runs aka i set it up at about 130 2am (once temp has stabilized and tube isn't shrinking) and go to bed when it goes to do a meridian flip or reaches to within 30 deg of the horizon it parks itself and goes to sleep

If you want ultimate safety have your main power pass though a proximity switch that if the switch is tripped it cuts power to the mount!
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