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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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The SHA Bulletin Spring 2018 - Total Solar eclipse of 1927 by Kevin Kilburn

DateMonday, January 15, 2018 at 8:45AM

The Bulletin of the Society for the History of Astronomy will be sent to members on April 1st 2018 and incudes an article about the eclipse. here is a brief snippet from the article:

 

 

THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, 29 June 1927.

"The moon's shadow came onto land at Criccieth, Carnarvonshire and passed directly across the Snowdonia mountains to leave the North Wales coast at Pensar. Having crossed Liverpool Bay, landfall was again made between Ainsdale and Formby"

 


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