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So I take it the dial stays fixed in the center, and the base rotates around it? Is it easy to read from the eyepiece, or do you have to contort around to see where you are at?

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Brad,

The dial stays fixed to the ground board bolt and the box spins around it (as you said).

It is not readable from the eyepiece - that is a definite drawback to this design. Looking at the picture, the focuser is on the left side so I set my "0" alignment at the left back corner. So it's just a step or two back and forth. I'm still playing with options, I may try using the front left corner. Carol and Rod's setup is definitely more user-friendly. I'm real okay with mine because at this time I'm using a laptop computer which is set up a few steps away from the scope. I have to walk to it to get coordinates so as I walk back to the scope I stop at the back to set the azimuth first then the altitude. I'm in the market for a PDA and will Velcro it to the scope next to the inclinometer. At that point I may wish I had a different set up but I'll deal with that if/when it happens.

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Tom

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