Posts Made By: Monty Meier

The Wayne Country Astronomical Society will be holding its annual star party on Saturday, September 27th at Memorial Park, which is located west of Wooster, OH on Silver Road, just off of Route 250. Additional information can be found here:

http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/calendar/?pos=1&state=&country=1&cal_date=2003-09-01&cal_date_month=09&cal_date_year=2003&txt=wooster&go.x=21&go.y=9

and

http://www.astronomy.com/Calendar/eventdetail.asp?paridEvent=1375

and also the club website at

http://www.wacas.org

People usually start arriving in the afternoon to set up. We could always use more scopes, especially some big dobs to please the public, so bring what you can! Let's just hope those pesky clouds stay away.

We hope to see you there!

I would suggest aiming at a light somewhere and de-focusing enough that the circle of light just about fills the eyepiece, and try to get it (the fuzzy light!) centered in there. Then bring it back into focus and move the crosshairs to where they are centered on the light spot.

I've heard of people replacing the thumbscrews with setscrews so as not to move the crosshairs accidentally, in case you're only using the reticle for alignment purposes and not for guiding purposes, where you'd need to be able to move the crosshairs.

Hi, Tom

Give it a try and let us know what happens! I'd rather try something out and see for myself than hold a discussion about whether it would work or not.

How about trying a hockey puck between the GEM head and the tripod, and then that same arrangement with and without hockey pucks under the tripod feet?