Quick
and Accurate Polar Alignment
because Meade's instructions are a joke. And you
wondered why you couldn't find anything with the setting circles.
Fork
Arm/Optical Tube Alignment
Polar aligned and still can't find anything? It could be that
your RA and
dec axes aren't perpendicular. This is a badly overlooked problem
which
causes significant pointing (and tracking) errors. The forkarms
and optical
tube are frequently not aligned properly at the factory. Here's
how to fix it.
More LX10 stuff...
Various
Improvements and Fixes
also some non-LX10 links...
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Wabash Valley
Astronomical
Society
in Lafayette, IN (home of Purdue University).
Cartes du Ciel
A.k.a. "Sky Charts," an excellent freeware (yes, free!) skycharting
program.
Questions or comments? Email me at jmmahony@hotmail.com