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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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Day 10 No observing, imaged the Calar Alto Observatory with Sony Alpha 350 with 300mm lens.

DateFriday, February 21, 2014 at 8:58AM

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A warm day but cloudy - no observing today. I did however go on a short trip up the Sierra Cabrera mountain to see what the birdlife was today (hoping for Bonelli's Eagles)  - I saw absolutely nothing - they all stay in if the sun is not shining here - which it usually is. En route I spotted and photographed the Calar Alto (Wikipedia Link) observatory on the mountains in the distance through a lot of haze - here is a very magnified photograph of it through my Sony Alpha camera with a 300mm lens and 2X Teleconverter. The observatory is a Spanish- German Observatory (Calar Alto Homepage Link) with a 3.5m telescope (evidently the biggest European Telescope on an equatorial mount - cetainly bigger than my 0.4m SCT!). Most of the telescopes are owned by by the Max Planck Institute.

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