Re: How High the Eyepiece?
- From: Davoud <star@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:49:39 -0500
Davoud wrote:
My 8" SCT was on a fork mount when I bought my LeSueur Astro Pier. The
height was perfect. Now that the OTA is on a Losmandy G-11 GEM the pier
is too short -- the eyepiece is too low for comfort.
If you have a GEM (not a fork), you are between 5'11" and 6'1" tall,
and you are comfortable with your eyepiece height, I would like to know
the distance from the floor or ground that you stand on while observing
to the eyepiece cup on your 'scope with your mount in the CWD position,
OTA pointing toward the NCP. If I'm lucky enough to get several answers
I can use them as a starting point as I consider how high to extend my
pier.
I failed to say that, for the numbers to be meaningful, you should have
a 'scope similar to mine -- say an 8 or 10" SCT. The eyepiece height of
a six-foot-long refractor in the specified position might not help me
much. Your comfortable /observing/ eyepiece height for any 'scope would
help, however.
Thanks again,
David
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