From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@me.com>

Date: February 16, 2010 5:12:08 AM MST

To: "Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com" <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com>

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] G2V stars...

Hi Antonio, I was wondering if you had some sort of motorised setting circles even though you have no Go-To mount..apparently not! I've heard Uncle Rod Mollise controls his Dobsonian using setting circles & the Sky Voyager app which I also have on my iPod Touch...just a thought!

Mark. 

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On 16/02/2010, at 11:00 PM, Antonio Agnesi <antoniangelo.agnesi@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Mark,
pointing Mars at magnitude -1 through a finder is quite straightforward, not so for an 8th magnitude star. Anyway Milton suggests to find the brightest G2V above 45° altitude, which seems definitely more practical even without goto capability. (well, it depends on the Moon phase, actually!)

Antonio
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