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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 167 Thursday 4th September 2014 - Clear Skies at 6 a.m.

DateThursday, September 4, 2014 at 6:41AM

I awoke this morning just before 6 a.m. and looked out of my bedroom window a little North of West. Still totally dark the sky was dripping with stars and the cross of Cygnus was almost vertical in the sky with the Milky Way behind it in a vertical band.

I felt my way through the house in the dark and outside and there were the Pleiades directly overhead and Orion quite high in the sky tilted over towards the East.

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