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Just me learning and exploring the night sky. Currently using a Startravel 80 on EQ1 and a Nexstar 8SE on kit Celestron Goto / NEQ6 SynTrek.

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M13 on a cool July night

With the skies still so light even after 11pm I am trying my hand at some wide-field viewing using my new Startravel 80. I went outside and turned to the first object for the Summer Season in the book 'Turn Left at Orion' - M13, The Great Globular Cluster. It was relatively easy to find using the description to follow from Arcturus to Gemma, then find the Keystone. I now also have Star Walk on the iPad which is a positive boon for quickly identifying the stars I'm pointing it at (I'm all for mo
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M37 on a freezing December night

Despite the almost full moon and several inches of frozen snow on the ground, I decided to get out and see what I could see using the new Binocular tripod mount bracket I'd just purchased from FLO. The snow was crunchy under foot, like someone had sugar-coated the ground. I printed off December's sky map and set my sights for M37, described as 'Very fine star cluster'. After spending some time reading the star map the wrong way around I finally figured out which part of the sky I should be lo
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