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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 166 Wednesday 3rd September 2014 My first dome and NGC 6928

DateWednesday, September 3, 2014 at 6:39AM

Clouds again descending just when it fell dark.

Here is an old photograph of my first observatory dome when I lived in Wiltshire. I built the dome out of half a ball that had been hanging in a display at an exhibition in Birmingham, cut a slot and added wheels and a track - building all the other parts from fibreglass from scratch. The dome was mounted on my first circular brick wall - well first brick wall ever in fact! I found a lot of fossils when I dug the hole for the base for the 10 inch reflector - including fossilised coral and several ammonites. I still have these.

This is what I dug up

This is another galaxy from the previous run.

 

NGC 6928 30 second exposure SBIG ST9XE + C14

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and linked to the labelled chart

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