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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 37 Planet visibility - Current appearance of the Moon and Saturn - Sky and Telescope's Week. 

DateThursday, March 20, 2014 at 5:03AM

I spent most of the day planning my more permanent location for my main telescope. It started cloudy in the day but cleared and was warm later. I know that the Moon and Saturn are going to appear close to each other in the sky tonight but the moon will not rise until 11:9 p.m. with a transit at 2:39 a.m. so I need to make sure I don't miss that. The Moon will have a phase of about 79% (waning)

This shows the visibility of Solar System Objects for tomorow

 

This is what the Moon will look like

and this is the current view of Saturn if you have a big telescope!

This week's Sky and Telescope's video is worth watching.

 

For those in New York and elsewhere the occultation was spoiled by poor weather this morning - I don't know if anyone managed to see it.

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