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The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.

 

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Day 18 Centaurus A video, Webcam set up.

DateSaturday, March 1, 2014 at 1:49PM

Not a good day today - cloudy and very breezy up here at about 1200 ft. above the sea. Have  looked at New Mexico, Sierra Nevada and Siding Spring Telescopes today - all clouded out! On Day 15 I talked about my remote image of Centaurus A repeated here

Browsing through the huge NASA video database I came across this video about Chandra X-Ray observations of the galaxy released just a few days ago. It shows a spectacular jet from the black hole at the centre.

 

I set up the webcam today focusing it on the mountains - still have a problem with the USB hub - can't get it to work. It worked every time in the Leyland dome - can't see the problem. I realised I was using the wrong mains socket - some Spanish sockets have an earth and some don't. The telescope and cameras were plugged into one with no earth - I could feel a tingle on the tripod legs that made me realise. Plugged into an earthed socket now - no tingle!

I now have 3 usb cables running outside for the telescope, the Canon 40D and the webcam. They all work - but should do through 1 cable and the hub!

 The evening was cloudy so again no observing.

 

 

 

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