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A few months back my brother dug this telescope of his garage and brought over to mine. I have had it out and was able to get a good look at the last quarter of the last moon, and a good look a Jupiter, with 2 moons visible. Somewhat to my surprise I was even able to resolve a couple of bands (pretty faint) on Jupiter.
Here is the telescope
http://home.comcast.net/~integral50/Telescope/telescope.JPG[/URL] [/PLAIN]
now for my question, I am having some trouble setting up the mount so the co-ordinate system is correct. Could someone give me some guidance.
First of all have I got the telescope in the correct orientation?
http://home.comcast.net/~integral50/Telescope/mount.JPG
I am having trouble locating the fiducial mark on ring A, I may have to make one, but that fiducial will be pointing North.
I have ring B set to my local latitude (~45) and believe that it should remain fixed there, is that correct?
Rings C & D should be Right Ascension and Declination but I am not sure how to align them.
Any pointers or direction to a web page with a complete description of this sort of mount would be appreciated.
Here is the telescope
http://home.comcast.net/~integral50/Telescope/telescope.JPG[/URL] [/PLAIN]
now for my question, I am having some trouble setting up the mount so the co-ordinate system is correct. Could someone give me some guidance.
First of all have I got the telescope in the correct orientation?
http://home.comcast.net/~integral50/Telescope/mount.JPG
I am having trouble locating the fiducial mark on ring A, I may have to make one, but that fiducial will be pointing North.
I have ring B set to my local latitude (~45) and believe that it should remain fixed there, is that correct?
Rings C & D should be Right Ascension and Declination but I am not sure how to align them.
Any pointers or direction to a web page with a complete description of this sort of mount would be appreciated.
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