recentreing the reticle on a meade eyepiece.

[rowan46]

Some while ago I read a piece about using an illuminated reticle eyepiece to centre stars for calibrating goto mounts. I then picked up a meade 9mm illuminated reticle eye piece for a couple of quid at a car boot sale. I was delighted till I discovered that it had movable cross hairs and I had bought the wrong one. Nethertheless I trawled the internet looking for a way to recentre it and drew a blank. It got put in a drawer and forgotten about. Today I found it and recentred it, it was so ridiculously easy I am ashamed that I didn't think of it before. So for any other new people who are nearly as dim as me here's how.

1 Turn reticle on

2 place on flat surface

3 Stand at arms length from eyepiece and look down

4 adjust till centre ring is showing

that's it as I said it's so easy everybody probably knows how to do it. I just thought I would pass it on to any new people as there's no literature on how to do it. apologies if there's a proper way to do it please feel free to correct me.

[david o]

Nice one Rowan

[glowjet]

Good one Roan, but you could also have used your finder scope cross hairs in conjunction with the main scope, I think Meade`s 9mm illuminated, clever piece of kit, was to use to adjust onto a star for guiding, if it was slightly off in the field of view, if you paid a couple of quid for it, you are a very lucky man, these cost over £100 not so long back

John.

[rowan46]

Good one Roan, but you could also have used your finder scope cross hairs in conjunction with the main scope, I think Meade`s 9mm illuminated, clever piece of kit, was to use to adjust onto a star for guiding, if it was slightly off in the field of view, if you paid a couple of quid for it, you are a very lucky man, these cost over £100 not so long back

John.

unfortunately I only have a red dot on my nexstar but even had I a finder scope I wouldn't have had the brains to think of that