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The Eyeball in the sky


Patrick1948

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:icon_eek: Last night/this morning was one of the best observing sessions I've had for a long time. It was my first serious stargazing session since I traded my 10" Dob for a more manageable Celestron 127 Mak and goto mount....and I miss my Dob so much !!! I was set up and waiting by 10pm and it still looked like mid afternoon!!! anyway, as soon as I could see three bright stars I launched into the sky align...(after meticulously leveling the tripod)...failure after failure.....four times I tried, very frustrating...is this common or is it just my ineptitude ? Anyway after realising the eyepieces I had (scope standard) were not very good I settled down after a successful alignment and tried the tour on the handset. Well...the scope pointed every where but where I wanted it to. More understanding needed, I suppose it would help if I read the manual !!!! I pointed the scope in the general direction of Cassiopeia and settled down with the 25mm eyepiece in and just bumbled around observing the open clusters there. This was about 12 midnight....next time I looked at my watch it was 2.45am!!!! Nearly three hours of totally unstructured star gazing in one constellation....what an enjoyable evening I had!!! I am really missing the big aperture of the 10" Dob but the 127 Mak is more manageable, and like they say, a good scope is one that is used.....by for now and clear skies to you all.

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hi i was up late my self,try in to get pics the moon and jupiter were up early.i had a bit of a tour round my selfi was after take in pics of the galaxy in andromeda i seen it but it got light for around 3 ish and a was done

i have found with my goto if you can level it and get a good polar align,it generaly points in the right direction ,also can you train the drives on that goto ,i have the meade handset and if the location and time zone is not right it points all over the place , i`d never trade the 12" dob in lol well not untill i can not carry it out side cheers pat

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