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Originally Posted by KG8
BTW, you can use any telescope manually. I often put a small celestron 6" atop a german equatorial mount out in the back yard with no more alignment than pointing it roughly south. I loosen the clutches and can pan around and look at anything, as easily as a dob would. If I plug a battery into it it will also track pretty nicely, agin with no special alignment needed.
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Well not quite as easily. I have been there and done that. When you have a 6" refractor on a GEM you need to stand on something when you point it down low and when you aim it up high, which is where I prefer to observe because the air is better, you are crawling around on the ground with the black snakes
Cheers,
John B