RE: [APML] Framing shots - was New North American Nebula

["Greg Hartke" <ghartke@earthlink.net>]

Robert,

You made me run right out and look at my Mountain Instruments MI-250 GOTO.
No setting circles. Funny, I never used setting circles even back in the
days of yore before Dobs. I always found star hopping easiest from an alt-az
mount but an equatorial platform wasn't too bad. I was well practiced with
Skalnate Pleso's "Atlas of the Heavens" in those days of the thrill of the
chase. Now I find automated pointing is a boon to AP. The amateur astronomy
hobby has exploded in the last decade compared to what is was 25 to 30
years. The web has worked wonders for niche industries.

Greg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org]On
> Behalf Of Robert Reeves
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:35 AM
> To: astro-photo@seds.org
> Subject: Re: [APML] Framing shots - was New North American Nebula
>
> I have never seen an equatorial mount that did not have scribed "manual"
> setting circles.  With these, you don't need digital circles.  All of my
> shots of visually unseen objects have been framed with old
> fashioned scribed
> circles.  Does your mount have these?  If not, then you can align
> the finder
> scope with the camera field of view and get pretty close to where you want
> to aim by star hopping.
>
> Robert Reeves                      reeves10@swbell.net


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