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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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Galaxy Imaging Run

DateSunday, October 11, 2009 at 11:47PM

A fairly clear night with some drifting light cloud.  A continuous run produced images of 243 galaxies - mainly small and faint. These were blinked with previous images in the template library although not all could be checked because some were being imaged for the first time. In some of the "slices" too many galaxies had been included so the synchronism with the rotation of the Earth "slipped", and later images had moved across to the West of the Meridian. However there was no need to move the dome slit at all during the run.

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