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Old 10-03-2016, 08:10 PM
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Which is sort of funny given I went the opposite way. I got a serious case of the irrits with the CPC telescope mount as I wanted to be able to slew manually while still having tracking in Alt-Az mode and bought the AZEQ type mount specifically because I could manually point and maintain alignment.

I point manually all the time and in EQ mode often don't even bother doing the star alignment. For visual use and quite apart from convenient EP positioning I find Alt-Az much nicer to aim near the pole, pointing an EQ there is a pain manually or using the slew buttons and anything near the pole will always be in that painful spot to point to. In Alt-Az while pointing at the zenith is a similar issue to an EQ at the pole (Like Dobsons Hole) all you have to do is wait an hour and the target becomes convenient again.
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