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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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Sunday
Apr132014

Day 61 - Sky view from new site

DateSunday, April 13, 2014 at 11:17AM

I have stitched photographs together and produced a panorama of the view from my new site (June onwards) and incorporated this into my SkyX software. This will be the view towards the South East in June. The "garden" is effectively a rocky area that is in the middle of the top of the house!

Sky and Telescope's Sky Week from 14th April 2014 - all about the lunar eclipse not visible from Europe!

 

This is the Hubblesite guide for April 2014

 

 

In the evening it was fairly clear so I set up the 4 inch refractor with my MX7C Starlight Xpress Camera. It took a long time to find focus as the focus was much further out than I thought. However I did find focus and will take images of a number of objects to test out the camera on the next clear night.

 

 

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