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This is how I put my setting circle on the base, I had it printed at a printers in Brecon on vinyl and then lacquered this cost me £15. I did not want to cut the base about. the pointer is held in place by 2 tracks of magnetic tape around the underside of the base plate. the pointer was made out of a flattened tent peg and suitably bent, this then can be placed anywhere and then held by the magnetic tape (19mm) £5.50 of ebayI then purchased a digital angle finder from wixey this has a magnetic base so sits on the tube. I have included the pdf file for the setting circle it is both clockwise and anti clockwise and it fits the 200 nicely as can be seen in the images setting circle for 200mm dobson.pdf Alignment is simple as Valleyman wrote: There is no need to put the Base facing North. You can use Stellerium to get the RA. First center a bright known star in the EP. Check its RA in Stelllerium. IE : Vega RA 110 degrees Then put your pointer at 110 degrees mark Job done.

Cloud forecast is looking good for Saturday night in Brecon so may take the Dob up the van Fri when I go back up there keep fingers crossed.

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/193868-sky-watcher-swa-70%C2%B0-35mm-eyepieces-first-light/ this is another review I have found

I will have a look at the BST's at SW camp at the end of the month. I know a few in the SW group have them anyway we shall see what i am comfortable with. and go from there.

They are great posts thanks for the links I am in the process of reading and digesting, although my limited budget will determine what I can get.

My introduction into astronomy a friend let me look through his telescope at Saturn it was a big Wow it made my hair standup I was hooked

This the moon just as it cleared the horizon same evening (harvest moon) Same setup just a few minutes before the picture in previous post and it was close to the horizon

This is a moon shot taken through the Dob using a Nikon s3500 held up to the eyepiece taken on 10/9/2014 21:16

Welcome Scott

Hi Gethyn19 Plenty of advice and people willing to give a hand here, there is a meet this weekend dont know if i will make it because i dont know how busy we are this weekend yet but will be going to the star party or should i say put in a appearance.

I ordered a Skyliner 200P 12.30pm Wed and was delivered by 9am Thursday a big thank you to Martin and the rest of the crew excellent communication and service from FLO

Congratulations a must have tool set for a newb

I have found these two guides invaluable for me congrats on brilliant posts

Great app congratulations FLO

Source: A new planet has been found by Astronomers

Source: Heads Up 30th August