stevenlouth

On 12/9/2011 at 16:02, Rob L said:

Aligning the reticle in the polar scope has got to be one of the most difficult and maddening things I've had to do. I swopped out the grub screws on mine for thumb screws (makes it so much easier).

Since doing it I haven't checked it again. I'm too scared, because it's probably found it's way out of alignment again, the thumbscrws are both a blessing and a curse

I'll definitely be giving this a go.

Thanks, Rob.

Hello

I hope you are still frequent visitor to the SGL website, because I am trying to align the reticule in my polarscope. The reticule came out when I unscrewed the eyepiece lens, the whole thing was out of focus and couldn't be adjusted with the grub screws. It had stuck itself to the eyepiece-lens with the nasty oil they install at the factory). 

Anyway, how did you do get it back in the right orientation? Is it all about the transit of Polaris and certain dates/times?

Regards, Steve