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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 127 Sunday 27th July 2014 Supernova found - 19 days too late!

DateSunday, July 27, 2014 at 8:01PM

I spent the day upgrading the SkyX to include the daily builds - quite an effort but managed it. This allowed me to link the camera via the camera add on to Orchetrate so I was ready to go!

I started a run of galaxy imaging and acquired 233 galaxy images for my library. 

When I checked the image of PGC 67733 against the DSS image I spotted a suspect SN which turned out to be the real thing - but had been discovered on the 8th July 2014 by an automated survey!!

 

 To see the details go to Dave Bishop's site and search for UGC 11860 on that page.

 I had another suspect which turned out to be the minor planet Anhui!

 

 

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