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| Equatorial Telescope Mount | 10.31.2008 11:30 |
| I have not written a post in a good while, because the elevation adjustment on my alt/az telescope mount broke, and without any means of using my telescope, there is not as much motivation for researching what to observe in the night sky, and therefore no material to post about! But hopefully that will change soon rather than later, as I have looked for a suitable replacement mount and found an affordable equatorial mount that I wish to buy for about $100. It is the Orion EQ-1, which I found at www.telescope.com. If you do not know the difference between an alt/az (altitude/azimuth) mount and an equatorial mount, I'll point you to an explanation here instead of trying to explain it. | |
I took a long time trying to figure out if my telescope would mate to the mounting surface of the EQ-1 mount, and discovered that I will need to purchase a pair of body mount rings as well. | |
This will hopefully enable me to start posting again shortly. I did, however, watch a Delta II rocket launch from Vandenburg AFB at night a week ago from about 160 miles away. My wife and I watched it from the beach, and it was the perfect location because its trajectory to insert a spacecraft into polar orbit caused the launch vehicle to pass right in front of us as it was traveling up and south. | |
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