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Old 04-May-2008, 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by RickJ View Post
Once you learn this method is is far faster than the time needed to read this. At first you may have to lock one axis so you don't move on a diagonal but once you get the hang of it its fast and quick. I went through my Herschell 400 with an average seek time of less than 1.5 minutes counting the time at the charts to calculate the move. I would hit 100 objects in three hours using this method.
Nice. I have never tried his method and it seems intuitively obvious. But I wonder if it's more difficult in alt-azi mode? Tracking north, south, east or west is not always easy. Probably won't work well for dobs.

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