This event only goes across Karl. Alt=69, Az=263. This altitude will be higher before the event, so be very careful you don't bang the camera or diagonal on the base. Maybe remove the diagonal when doing the GoTo and then carefully replace it and the camera.
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Wanting some measure of get-back after my fumble at the event an hour earlier, I packed up and drove down Graham Hill Rd to a road to take me to the frontage that got me into Scotts Valley and Hwy 17, on up to the Mtn Charlie Monument, near the centerline of this event. It would be difficult, but do-able. 0.8s on a 13.1 star high overhead, but not so high I had to use the 0.5x reducer. This time, my fumble was even worse! I carefully 2-star alighned, went to the field, and could not ID any of the star patterns. Eventually I had to just put in the Watec and try again on the smaller field. Again, nothing could be ID'd. Another fumble. I did send it to M35 not that far away, and the cluster was just off the top of the LCD field. I should have been able to recognize things.
I once, after such a night, resolved to instead print real SDSS charts, but I don't have an easy way to orient those properly, or scale them properly w/o lots of effort. But that may be the only way. An alternative may be to get C2A to plot R band star sizes?
Got it from home. Believes he had a miss.