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The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.

 

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Day 28 Improved Pointing and Tracking, M51 with the Canon 40D and 4 inch refractor.

DateTuesday, March 11, 2014 at 8:41AM

Following the alignment of the CGEM last night I checked the pointing and tracking of the mount which had improved considerably. I imaged M51 (single 90 second image) using the SBIG ST9XE CCD camera and the 4" Meade Refractor with the following result.

This is the FITS data about the above image

 

I managed to get to Telescope T11 in New Mexico today to image (300 second exposure) the same object for comparison purposes.

 

 My image was not too bad for a 0.1m telescope when you consider that I just took the  second image with this 0.5m telescope in New Mexico.

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