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Tonk
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Re: setting up first time
07/04/09 02:43 PM

DSO = Deep Sky Objects - faint galaxies, dim nebula, star clusters etc

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the tripod mount its what came with it , its a manual tracking ( turn the knobs kind )

You are pretty well limited to shooting the moon with this sort of mount. You can only do very short exposures - so you need large bright subject - the moon

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
setting up first time	mdel747	07/04/09 01:11 PM
Re: setting up first time	justabob	07/04/09 01:54 PM
Re: setting up first time	mdel747	07/04/09 02:15 PM
Re: setting up first time	mdel747	07/04/09 02:37 PM
Re: setting up first time	Tonk	07/04/09 02:43 PM
Re: setting up first time	mdel747	07/04/09 02:48 PM

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