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Who's using manual RA and Dec circles?
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Scopes: ES102 apo carbonfiber, Orion 127 mac/cas
Binos: B&L Legacy 10x50, Canon 15x50 image stabilized
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Most recently I adapted my Celestron StarSense Explorer plate solving phone
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Re: Who's using manual RA and Dec circles?
But my wedged-fork-mounted grab-and-go C-90 has wonderful setting circles. Because the
For setting sidereal time, I have an old travel alarm clock that never kept good time. It ran 4 minutes fast per day. Hello? Sidereal time!! I can set the clock to sidereal time at home and then use it to set the mount's setting circle in the field.
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I used my non-
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Re: Who's using manual RA and Dec circles?
GrabnGo on Alt/AZ : *SW Startravel 102 F/5 refractor( widefield, Sun, push-to), *OMC140 Maksutov F/14.3 ( planets).
Most used Eyepieces: *Panoptic 24, *Morpheus 14, *Leica ASPH zoom, *Zeiss barlow, *Pentax XO5.
Commonly used bino's : *Jena 10X50 , * Canon 10X30 IS, *Swarovski Habicht 7X42, * Celestron 15X70, *Kasai 2.3X40
Rijswijk Public Observatory: * Astro-Physics Starfire 130 f/8, * 6 inch Newton, * C9.25, * Meade 14 inch LX600 ACF, *Lunt.
Amateur astronomer since 1970.
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