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Eddgie
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 02/01/06
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Re: Setting Circles
07/05/09 12:22 PM
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I totally "Get" why people like to keep it simple. It is one of the reasons I keep my Vixen Polaris (not Super Polaris, but the older Polaris). I like that it runs from a 9 Vdc battery and even using my C5, if I take the time to polar align, I can get within a degree of my target.
But HONESTLY? I haven't used it in a year.
That being said, there is a graceful elegance to using a mount with manual setting circles. It is like a pilot using dead reconing rather than Nav aids like VOR or GPS. There is kind of a zen quality to it, and when you align and get it all set up, you don't have to worry about tripping over power cords, or running down your battery, or random stupid stuff that computerized mounts sometimes do (My LXD 750 HATES to point anyfreakingwhere CLOSE to zenight and gives me warning messages whenever I try).
So, I "Get" it.
But then again, I am a 21st century kind of guy. LED backlighted TV, Windows Vista, Complicated mobile phone with bluetooth radio in the car so I can do hands free. Royal pain to get it all wired togeteher, but when you do, life is GOOD!
Still MIGHTY Miffed about the space station though..  Should be a BIG FREAKING WHEEL! Idiots. Don't know ANYTHING about marketing at NASA. If it were a BIG STINKING WHEEL, people would smile... I sure would.
Ciao, fellow cosmic babies.
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Celestron C14, CGE (Big Al)
Astro-Physics 6" f/8 (Buffy)
Televue 101 (No name, but I call it my Widescreen HD Space TV)
The night sky is my mistress. She seduces me away from all other lovers.
Edited by Eddgie (07/05/09 12:25 PM)
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