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First Clouds
My new telescope (an Orion SkyView Pro 6LT OTA) arrived yesterday. I came home to mostly clear skies and dutifully sat down to dinner and helped put my older daughter Grace (2.5 years old) to bed before opening the boxes. By the time I had the OTA mounted on an old SkyView Deluxe Equatorial mount I already had and got it outdoors the clouds had started to roll in. I got a look at the Moon before the clouds were too thick to see through. I bought the tube rings and 8x50 right angle finder scope with the OTA. It all went together nicely. I already had the large and small counterweight for the mount, but I'll need to get another large counterweight (replacing the small one) in order to balance the telescope. When Grace came downstairs this morning her reaction was "Telescope! Big big telescope!" She's Daddy's little girl. I let her play with the finder for a while before swapping it for the Edmund's cardboard tube telescope she normally plays with. The forecast for tonight is for clear skies, but given the new telescope I'm not too optimistic. -- Brian Reynolds | "But in the new approach, as you know, | the important thing is to understand http://www.panix.com/~reynolds/ | what you're doing rather than to get NAR# 54438 | the right answer." -- Tom Lehrer |
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