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| A little solar observing at Mariner's Museum Park |
I drove across the water to Norfolk the other day to help a fellow
with his telescope. He was trying to use WAY too much magnification and
was very disappointed in what his 'scope showed him. I tried to talk
him down from that ledge but it turned out that he'd already made up his
mind to give up on observing for now. At the end of the evening he
pretty much THREW his ETX-90RA at me! So now I have yet another Mak-Cas
telescope--and an impressive set of eyepieces and other
accessories--for the price of two hours' driving and a stop on the way
home at Subway!
By a strange co-incidence I've been thinking
lately about a travel-scope...an inexpensive unit to carry overseas when
the Navy sends me to one tanker or another! It is truly amazing how
steady the air can get in Bahrain...
I've been out for a couple
of sessions of solar observing and I'm happy with the scope's tracking
capabilities, but it's a bit off optically. Well, on my next deployment I'll have plenty of time available to check and correct (if necessary) its collimation.
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