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Knighty2112

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  1. Depending on where you live, with light pollution you may not see much more improvement. I live in Bortle 7 area which is crud for looking at all but the brightest deep sky stuff even with a 10 newtonian that I own, so generally tend to use one of the 3 ‘fracs I own for most stuff. If you live in an area with darker skies then you would get better results with a larger aperture.

  2. I have SS6 Pro and SS7 Pro. Never got my syncscan wifi dongle to work with SS7 even when connected first up to the Synscan app, but works with no problem on SS6 after connection first with the synscan app. Not sure what the answer is, but must lie with SS7 in some way. Run all apps on my ipad.

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  3. I’ll leave it to others who have the mount if it can indeed cope with the load close to or above 5kg OK. I have a couple of goto mounts that claim they can hold 5kg/5.4kg respectively, but performance wise they work much better with smaller/lighter scopes fitted. Larger  heavier ‘fracs tend to be less stable on mounts also, which will also effect performance.

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  4. Nice shots. Although the terminator had moved on past the best point to see them you can still make out the lunar X and V in the your image. I was viewing these at approx the same time on the 18th too visually, which was my first bit of visual astro since before Christmas.

  5. I would suspect that M81/82 would be visible in your C6 on good nights with a low to mid power EP. OK your not going to get views like you would from dark sky sites, but you should still be able to see none the less. I live in bortle 7 area and can see M81/82 in my smallest 80mm ‘frac quite easily on clear dark nights when the moon is not in the way of things.

  6. Are you using Skyalign or manual align? Also, use a higher magnitude EP to give a better accuracy of you 3 star alignments, making sure you get them as close to the centre of the EP as possible. Make sure the mount is as level as possible also. Some say this isn’t required, but I find I get much better alignments when the mount is fully levelled.

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  7. If you live in my neck of the woods in ‘ull (or if you want the posher name we also go by the longer moniker of Kingston Upon Hull) we had (and still do) have our own telephone exchange, so we had white coloured phone boxes rather than red ones which everybody outside of the Hull area in the UK had. Not quite sure what quirk of history caused this. 
     

    Here’s two outside the old Lowgate Post Office in centre of said city! Not been past this place for a while, so not sure if they are still there! 

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  8. 40 minutes ago, Mr Spock said:

    I don't see that option on my iPad :sad2:

    Have you got an earlier version of IOS software on your iPasOS? Current version on mine is at 16.7 which is the latest 16 version update which came up yesterday (version 17 available if you fancy the new beta version to try, but might have bugs in still). 

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