Saturday, March 16, 2013

Celestron Studies

It was only partly cloudy tonight so I thought I'd head down to the park about 6:15 to see if I could figure out what the alignment problem was with the Celestron. It got steadier cloudy but the moon eventually popped out and I tried a one object alignment. It worked. I did a slew to Serius and although it wasn't visible, the scope went to the right general area and then I returned to the moon and Bingo. There never were any stars tonight so I packed up about 8:30 and headed home. I was able to explain the scope to some guys that rode by on bikes and visited for a few minutes. I chalked the alignment failures up to using stars that were too close to each other.

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