Odassy scope

A man stopped by just before I closed down tonight, he was given a DOB
and is having trouble with it. It's a 6inch coluter one. He's going to
bring it down for me to look at, but I figure I need some ideas too.
He says that with the drawtube is in all the way, Jupiter is big and
fuzzy, that as he pulls it out he gets a sharp but small image, he's
been using a 14mm he thinks. To me that sounds fine, but he said he
gets a spot and 4 lines coming out, ( to me sounds like he's getting
spider spikes ) but he said the black spot follows the planets image,
I admit, that has me stumped. He wanted to know if it's fixable, I am
thinking that mostly he needs to be shown just how to use it and told
some of the why's and wherefor's of useage. But if anyone has a scope
like this one and knows about anything I need to look for, let me
know. He's going to come down from Mojave.


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It's hard to tell from someone else's description, even more so third hand.
IIRC, don't you use a newt? I would teach him to collimate it and see what
you have after that.

Clear Skies

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/
And the Lunar Picture of the Day http://www.lpod.org/
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"Starlord" wrote in message
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A man stopped by just before I closed down tonight, he was given a DOB
and is having trouble with it. It's a 6inch coluter one. He's going to
bring it down for me to look at, but I figure I need some ideas too.
He says that with the drawtube is in all the way, Jupiter is big and
fuzzy, that as he pulls it out he gets a sharp but small image, he's
been using a 14mm he thinks. To me that sounds fine, but he said he
gets a spot and 4 lines coming out, ( to me sounds like he's getting
spider spikes ) but he said the black spot follows the planets image,
I admit, that has me stumped. He wanted to know if it's fixable, I am
thinking that mostly he needs to be shown just how to use it and told
some of the why's and wherefor's of useage. But if anyone has a scope
like this one and knows about anything I need to look for, let me
know. He's going to come down from Mojave.


--
Dragons Must Fly when Thread's in the Sky

www.starlords.org



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I admit, that has me stumped. He wanted to know if it's fixable, I am
thinking that mostly he needs to be shown just how to use it and told
some of the why's and wherefor's of useage.

Starlord:

I am quite sure when you actually look through the scope yourself, everything
will be clear. Trying to understand what is happening from an inexperienced
observer's description is most likely a lost cause.

Jon

Ya, I've got a DOB myself, he says there's no adjustment bolts or nuts
on it's end!


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"CLT" not@thisaddress wrote in message
...
It's hard to tell from someone else's description, even more so
third hand.
IIRC, don't you use a newt? I would teach him to collimate it and
see what
you have after that.

Clear Skies

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/
And the Lunar Picture of the Day http://www.lpod.org/
************************************

"Starlord" wrote in message
...
A man stopped by just before I closed down tonight, he was given a
DOB
and is having trouble with it. It's a 6inch coluter one. He's
going to
bring it down for me to look at, but I figure I need some ideas
too.
He says that with the drawtube is in all the way, Jupiter is big
and
fuzzy, that as he pulls it out he gets a sharp but small image,
he's
been using a 14mm he thinks. To me that sounds fine, but he said
he
gets a spot and 4 lines coming out, ( to me sounds like he's
getting
spider spikes ) but he said the black spot follows the planets
image,
I admit, that has me stumped. He wanted to know if it's fixable, I
am
thinking that mostly he needs to be shown just how to use it and
told
some of the why's and wherefor's of useage. But if anyone has a
scope
like this one and knows about anything I need to look for, let me
know. He's going to come down from Mojave.


--
Dragons Must Fly when Thread's in the Sky

www.starlords.org



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If it's really a Coulter Odyssey, then he probably is not recognizing the
collimation bolts. I don't know about a 6" Odyssey, but my 13.1" had them, and
I did collimate it. They looked more like screws holding on the cell, but those
were really on the sides, the ones on the end were for adjusting the primary.


Clear, Dark, Steady Skies!
(And considerate neighbors!!!)

If it's really a Coulter Odyssey, then he probably is not recognizing the
collimation bolts. I don't know about a 6" Odyssey,

Hi:

AFAIK, there was never a 6 inch Odyssey. The smallest ones were an 8 inch f/4.5
and an 8 inch f/7.

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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