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    Jul 14, 2022 4 minutes

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    Thank you very much for hosting the interesting webinar with Steve Richards last evening (Telescopes Masterclass: ‘Increase Your Observing Productivity with a Home Observatory’, Thursday 26 May). I learned a lot and there are many ideas I want to follow up on. I appreciate Steve kindly pointing me towards the chapter in his book, about drift alignment. I own the book and I intend to try this technique out. I also want to get my head around plate solving. I feel I might get better value from my William Optics 71 and EQM35 mount if I can master them. Polar alignment has never been good enough with

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