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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 102 Wednesday 2nd July 2014 Solar Flares from Andy Devey, NGC 6188, NGC 6334, Pluto from Siding Spring.

DateWednesday, July 2, 2014 at 9:21AM

 

Andy Devey sent me an email about two flares he observed yesterday - a C6.0 followed by an M1.4 class event. (From 10:00 to 12:00 UT). Here is a link to Andy's video:

http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/5610/2014/23618004-286e-4d90-a688-c2f929a56ef8.gif

Andy estimates the area to be 1 1/2 times the size of Jupiter.

 

The weather was good in New South Wales at Siding Spring so I took this 10 minute image of NGC 6188.

NGC 6188 is in the constellatio of Ara

and then NGC 6334

I managed to image Pluto from Siding Spring

 

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