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With the imaging setup I use goto. For visual, even through the big dob, if it's the first time I've ever looked at an object I make a point of star-hopping. Even though I need to use a ladder to get up to the finderscope, I use a telrad to position the scope and ladder. Under a dark sky it's also a wonderful way to re-acquaint yourself with some of the dark corners of forgotten constellations.
A couple of my observing buddies and I have a bit of a ritual with people who want to share our dark sky site. They have to star hop to Shapley-1 before they're invited back.
If I'm just showing people around, or trying to get as many visual supernova searches done as I can, it sure saves a lot of time and faff using the servocat and argonavis.
cheer,
Andrew.
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