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BillFerris
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Reged: 07/17/04
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Whether tis nobler of the mount to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misalignments, or, by consulting charts, end them.
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To point, to slew--no more--and by a slew to say we end the search, and the thousand natural tics that encoders are heir to.
And don't forget: for best results, insist upon no "shakes pier."
OMG, where's a rim shot when you need one 
Bill in Flag
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Grand Canyon Adventure
Lowering the Threshold
18" Obsession
4.5" Meade 4500
10x50 Swift Audubon
Cosmic Voyage
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Ptarmigan
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Reged: 09/23/04
Posts: 2364
Loc: Arctic
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I starhop and never used GoTo and have done fine. In a really dark sky location, I can find objects without starhopping since they are readily visible in the viewfinder.  
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Ptarmigans=Cute and Cuddly
Meade Starfinder 8
Nikon 10x50
Rebel XT
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Mr. Bill
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Reged: 02/09/05
Posts: 3149
Loc: Just passing through.....
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I starhop and never used GoTo and have done fine. In a really dark sky location, I can find objects without starhopping since they are readily visible in the viewfinder.
Depends....some of these guys are looking for 16th mag galaxies.
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10x50 Fujinon binos + 16x70 Fujinon binos + UA UniMount
Oberwerk BT100 45 degree +24mm Pans + Hercules fork mount
120mm f/5 Orion achromat + Moonlite focuser
130mm TMB 130SS f/7 APO refractor
140mm f/5.7 Vixen NeoAchro Petzvel refractor
150mm f/8 homemade achromat
8 inch newt with f/5 Swayze mirror
10 inch f/4.7 Orion newt + Paracorr
15 inch f/5 Discovery "Galactic Cannon"
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Tony Flanders
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Reged: 05/18/06
Posts: 3469
Loc: Cambridge, MA, USA
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I starhop and never used GoTo and have done fine. In a really dark sky location, I can find objects without starhopping since they are readily visible in the viewfinder.
That limits you to an extremely small number of objects. Only a tiny fraction of all the objects that I view through my 12.5-inch Dob are directly visible through its 8x50 finderscope. And that includes plenty of showpiece objects. For instance, essentially all planetary nebulae.
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Tony Flanders
First and foremost observing love: naked eye.
Second, binoculars.
Last but not least, telescopes.
And I sometimes dabble with cameras.
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