[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

I found the SCP extremely hard to find. This chart from a mate of mine with brighter stars that you can actually see and home in the sweet spot might help. Take the annotations and arrows out and you'll be hard pressed to find octans.

Thanks Marc, I'll try this as well. Octans is a bugger, that's for sure. I'm hoping that once I set the dials properly - with the current time and date as well as the standard meridian offset for me, which is 0.8 deg E, and used the compass and inclinometer plus levelled the mount... phew... that I might actually be able to see it close to the engravings. I saw it down at our forest site the other day through a GSO polar scope no problems. No exactly bright, but not impossible either.