latest Mods on my Dob

[ponytale]

This week i have made a few improvements to the dob,

1: covered the friction surface of the base with some laminex as the ply face was a little rough for the teflon sheet .

2: marked up the base with setting circle lines i used a print off rob willets setting circle page http://settingcircles.robertwillett.com/ and transposed them on to my base with felt pen , as the base diameter is 600mm the scale on the edge was pretty close to 1" for 10 degrees which is pretty good resolution for a dob, see pics.

see my other post regarding setting up in daylight.

http://stargazerslounge.com/diy-astronomer/169711-day-time-alignment.html

[todd8137]

nice is it up and running ?

[ponytale]

yes it is up and running very well thanks , i still have to make a shroud for it ,

and next step is to make permanent alt/dec circle, and sort out a finder( probably Telrad0 and a camera mount followed by an equatorial platform, amongst many others,