Re: very newbie question re: declination
- From: Joerg Glissmann <spamPANTS@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:15:57 +0100
Tunderbar schrieb:
Hi y'all. I just got a brand new 4.5" reflector and am getting
familiar with polar alignment, declination and right ascension, etc.
I've got it assembled with help from several excellent websites.
I've got the equatorial mount set to my latitude, 50 degrees. It
points very close to where Polaris is. So far so good.
When I point the scope in the same alignment as the mount, ie.
directly towards Polaris, the declination ring shows 0 degrees. Should
it not show 90 degrees when pointed at Polaris? Am I missing
something?
Hi there,
I just stumbled over a post on uk.sci.astronomy (*): somebody stated there that it is not too uncommon that glitches happen on telescope assembly and he used setting circles being mounted wrong as an example:
<cite>
Exercise some caution though. A chum of mine in Perth, W.Australia bought
a Celestron Newtonian reflector (I think it was the Astromaster 130EQ) with
an equatorial mounting, and has had to return it: it turns out that large
numbers of them were manufactured with the Declination setting circle
mounted 90 degrees out.
</cite>
Sounds a bit like what you're experiencing at the moment..
Best regards,
Joerg
(*) URL to the newsgroup entry
news://news.psinet.de:119/1ics48l.1sl3zat1j0nt7kN%wildrover.andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Joerg Glissmann
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