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1.11.16 - Tuesday

Down at 8:00pm or so till 1:30am, working on re-polar aligning the AP 900GTO mount. It hadn't moved at all in Azimuth and only a tiny amount in Altitude so it didn't take long to re-set. The only trouble was the illuminated eyepiece had lost all power in the light's battery so I had to do it by shining a torch into the hole.
I spent the rest of the time on photographing the Orion nebula though it hadn't risen much so the seeing was poor so low in the murk, still worth the effort. Visually the nebula looked immense in the ODK, striking, filled the 32mm eyepiece.
Brian