Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  HD240465  ·  NGC 7789
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NGC7789 - Caroline's Rose, Willem Jan Drijfhout
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NGC7789 - Caroline's Rose, Willem Jan Drijfhout
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With the moon full out it is always difficult to pick a target. In my local astronomy club this target was chosen as object of the month, so good enough reason to go for it. 
This was the first session fully utilizing a new rolling pier, the S130 from euroEMC. What a joy to work with! The fully installed rig rolled onto the terrace onto a preset location. That was so precise that PA did not need any tweaking. Just running an automated mountmodel and off to the races. Total setup time down from about 45 minutes to about 15 minutes. And with some experience I can probably bring that down to about 10 mins. Nothing beats of course a permanent observatory, but as long as that is not feasible at my location, this is probably as close as it gets and certainly a serious improvement.

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NGC7789 - Caroline's Rose, Willem Jan Drijfhout