Club scope
May 3, 2015 19:42:33 GMT -8
Post by Deleted on May 3, 2015 19:42:33 GMT -8
Last night went well. Except not with the club scope, but my own 16" Lightbridge.
D.S. and I spent a couple of hours reassembling the secondary mirror and getting it collimated.
But despite my best efforts could not get the big mirror to stay put. With all the looky loos and
neighbors coming over,i thought i better do something as i has told all to come over and see.
Venus wasn't much of a hit. Jupiter on the other hand astounded everyone. We watched all
four moons on one side all lined up. After all had their turn we looked again. Most all saw that
the one moon had disappeared,it was neat to hear them all get a sense of what was happening.
Next up was the nearly full moon. With the famous Ethos 21 in the holder, it filled the entire field
of view. Now I got loud wows and oohs! A couple of newbies had to look again and again. We
did the white paper projection from about 3 feet away to show everyone at once the location
of the major features. After that i got a list of features they had discovered for themselves.
Now today, i spent some time getting the 20 ready for tonight. It looks like the sling came
loose as did one triangle nut. Realized the club laser isn't long enough to see the pattern
in the drawtube. Hotech to the rescue. Catseye for double check,wow dead on, no PAE
or FAE. Derrik, you where right in moving the focuser over to the original holes.
MMc
D.S. and I spent a couple of hours reassembling the secondary mirror and getting it collimated.
But despite my best efforts could not get the big mirror to stay put. With all the looky loos and
neighbors coming over,i thought i better do something as i has told all to come over and see.
Venus wasn't much of a hit. Jupiter on the other hand astounded everyone. We watched all
four moons on one side all lined up. After all had their turn we looked again. Most all saw that
the one moon had disappeared,it was neat to hear them all get a sense of what was happening.
Next up was the nearly full moon. With the famous Ethos 21 in the holder, it filled the entire field
of view. Now I got loud wows and oohs! A couple of newbies had to look again and again. We
did the white paper projection from about 3 feet away to show everyone at once the location
of the major features. After that i got a list of features they had discovered for themselves.
Now today, i spent some time getting the 20 ready for tonight. It looks like the sling came
loose as did one triangle nut. Realized the club laser isn't long enough to see the pattern
in the drawtube. Hotech to the rescue. Catseye for double check,wow dead on, no PAE
or FAE. Derrik, you where right in moving the focuser over to the original holes.
MMc