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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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Dec132011

Galaxy Imaging

DateTuesday, December 13, 2011 at 12:04AM

Now that I have resolved the issues with the Paramount and the C14 I can run automated galaxy imaging sessions and last night managed to image 227 galaxies as part of the supernova search programme. The Moon started to seriously get in the way about 1 am local time so I gave up. To build up my new galaxy library I am tempted to let the telescope run all night and go to bed one moonless night but it is always a risky strategy! It is certainly quite a bonus not to have a dome to rotate!

This is one of the galaxies imaged  - PGC 9795

 

Over the past 2 weeks I have imaged almost 1000 galaxies and will start another cycle of the same galaxies to see if any supernovae have occurred as well as starting a new cycle to increase the size of the galaxy library.

Galaxy PGC 10052 was also imaged.

 This Barred Galay is PGC 2901

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