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johninderby

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  1. johninderby
    Or perhaps they need to acquire a villa in Tennerife. Then I wouldn’t mind staying there for a few months carrying out beta testing. 🙂🙂🙂
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    Your comments are very unfair and uncalled for I think. Remember they are developing a complete new GOTO system from scratch which takes considerable time. to complete the software. How long do you think it took Skywatcher to develop their Synscan system. Years I would think.
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    Diamond Steeltrack M48 adaptor https://www.firstlightoptics.com/adapters/baader-diamond-steeltrack-m48-adapter.html
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    Addiction is a terrible thing. 😁😁😁
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    This will be interesting this June. 🙂 ”June nights will host a spectacular alignment of the brighter planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will all line up in the early morning sky. ”
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    Perhaps the Diamond Steeltrack T2 adaptor might work. Says fits any Diamond Steeltrack focuser. https://www.firstlightoptics.com/adapters/baader-diamond-steeltrack-t2-adapter.html
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    I’ve cut back to five scopes now. 😁 Edit: Forgot about the little mak spotter. 🙂
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    Considering Venus was just above the horizon this morning a decent result. 👍🏻
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    If you get the 6SE now then you could get a 12” dob later on. 😁
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    The Baader Steeltrack is super smooth in operation. Just has a great feel. Have two of them and can’t fault them. The FeatherTouch 3”:R&P is the best focuser I’ve ever used though but of course very expensive.
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    Last scope………………….until the next one. 😁😁😁 Have you considered the Nexstar 6SE? Pretty solid on the SE mount and smaller and lighter to cary.
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    The Evolution 8 will fit on the CPC tripod apparently so if you could find a CPC tripod used that would be a nice upgrade. The Evolution 9.25 already comes with the CPC tripod.
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    Nacho popcorn also goes well with the Doomsday Machine. 😁
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    Goes to TV and now watching The Doomsday Machine. 👍🏻
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    I wonder if we could crowdfund a giant space vac to hoover up all the space junk such as Starlink.😁😁😁 Bit like the Doomsday machine from Star Trek 🙂
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    A lot forget the following which can help with the accuracy of the auto alignment.
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    Dremel and cutting disk is better. 🙂
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    After the mount has moved to the sun you should just need to use the 8 way slide switch to center the sun. It will move extremely slowly using the slde swith and movement will not be noticeable just looking at the mount. Only when looking through the eyepiece will you notice movement. You shouldn’t be holding the power button. Won’t work properly if you do.
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    The auto focuser is much better when using a HiTec controller connected to a laptop. The control box it comes with is so limited and slow.
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    Looks like the charity shop has just added bits without knowledge of what they were doing. 🤔
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    Think the auto focuser is ideal for maks and SCTs that lack fine focusing and way cheaper than adding a crayford to the back of the scope. Everyone that’s done the Lacerta upgrade seems very pleased with it. 👍🏻
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