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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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Jan022012

Happy New Year

DateMonday, January 2, 2012 at 9:53AM

Arrived in Spain yesterday afternoon to blue skies and sunshine and set up for a Galaxy imaging run. I obtained sky flats and managed to get over 320 X  30 second galaxy images after checking alignment and setting up a new T-Point  model. I also had a problem with images suddenly becoming GIFs instead of FITS! I had to check the Software Bisque support groups to identify that a setting had mysteriously reset itself to cause the problem. Why it did that suddenly I have no idea - it had never happened in all the years I had been using CCDSoft! . I stopped imaging in the early hours of today when I realised that I had been up for over 20 hours  -  having flown from Manchester to Murcia and then driving the 110 km or so to Cabrera. 

Today's job is to blink these with library images in Grepnova to see if I can find any new supernova in these images.

Six of the 320 images taken last night

 

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