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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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Monday 26th May 2014 - yet another lesson on how to miss a supernova! M95 in 2012.

DateMonday, May 26, 2014 at 10:17PM

Below is my image of M95 taken on 15th March 2012 at 22:42 UT. This was the 72nd image taken that night out of a total set of 401 galaxies. I checked this image on 16th March and found no supernova. I suspect it is there but just too faint to show on my 30 second image! Can you see anything?

Shortly after my observation a supernova exploded in the galaxy and was detected on the evening following my image being taken at 16.849. (16th March|).

Details of the discovery are here

The actual discovery image is here

 

I imaged the new supernova on the 22nd March - see image below.

Here is an animation blinking between the two images above.

 

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