I've assited several large Schmidt owners find comet 2006m4 SWAN by telling them ther RA and DEC coordinates. A supprising number didn't know how to enter the numbers on their hand paddle. I could also name names. DT PS: that's owners of large Schmidt telescopes as opposed to being large themselves.
--- diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
I won't name names, but I've had a couple of our clubs well known "night sky masters" while at Bryce, ask me to slew my fabulously accurate "goto" scope to an object they were trying to find among the crowded night sky, and shine my laser through the eyepiece to pin point the target so they could put their scope on it. Thank Gosh for the technology of goto's and lasers... Did I say "Gosh"? ;)
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