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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Pretty much my experience too. Incredible to watch it point and then just one minor adjustment to put me back in the same spot.
Bob, pointing for imaging big runs (10-100 hours of data) requires that you put the scope back in the same spot and pointing accuracy needs to be tip top to get repeatable results. If the mount cannot point quite accurately it takes several iterations to get the scope back in the same position. That can add up to lots of time you are not imaging and collecting data. That's why good pointing is so necessary.
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Well Paul, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Your image of The Wolf - SL17 Dark Nebula is simply superb (see image of the week folks).
If I win lotto it will be a MX for me but reality says this time next year its an EQ8 but then I'm only after 30 sec images. And this will be more than adequate for the LX200.
Great thread, great responses and discussion & all FIRST here on IIS, the others can but follow.