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When I first started I lined up my go-to and realised I needed to work on recognition better.
I had a sky map and torch. That killed my night vision but I knew what star it was.
Bleah! Slow and tedious. Trying to find the target objects. Too slow, too hard. Just to set up.
Then I discovered Stellarium. It became a pleasure to be able to find sky objects so easily.
As a part time beginner I find the Go-To now a joy. The precision that is needed to set up was not realised at first.
In a couple of years I will upgrade and start photography. I have nearly all the equipment now. I still need to learn more on operation.
Go-to is helping me learn the sky. Its a memory thing. That means repetition. But someone persists in buying new astro gear in my end of Brisbane. Stimulating cloud formation.
When I find who it is, well, that will have to be censored.
Personally I find Go-to as a learning tool as well.
Cheers
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