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just picked up a Meade 2080 F/10, what to check?
A neighbor had a Meade 2080 they were about to actually toss out so I
got it just before the trash pick up on Tuesday. He said he was getting rid of it because he's moving and had no time for sales, I gave him $100 anyway which, if it works ok, would be a steal. This appears to be the F/10 model. With it came 9x60 finder with illuminated reticle, equatorial wedge, drive and heavy tripod, a couple of eyepieces, drive controller and power supply. There's also the diagonals for both scope and finder and 2 to 1.25" adapters. One thing I did find out is that it is a HEAVY beast, seems heavier than even the 9.25 I used to have on GC-5. I sold off all my SCT's years ago and was never really going to return to astro until I saw this giveaway. Now the question: how do I check this out optically? I look through the corrector and the primary seems fine, not sure how to see how the secondary looks. So any advice here would be welcome as well as how to test resolution, collimate, etc. There appears to be one thing missing that I sort of need because I can't see Polaris most of the time and that is the compass that snaps into the base-- any idea where I can find one or is there a substitute that will work? Thanks for any help, R2 |
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