Weekends observing and frustrations!

[Tinker1947]

A free-bee from Texas DIY Store, there 1 metre measures was a few years back so you might have to pay now....

[craigfoot]

Sorry. . but what's a 'measure'?

[cuivenion]

Looks like a rubber ruler to me, put there so the the Jubilee clamp doesn't mark the tube.

[Tinker1947]

Looks like a rubber ruler to me, put there so the the Jubilee clamp doesn't mark the tube.

It's Plastic and it rests on the tube ring to stop the scope from sliding down while its being rotated to get the Focuser to a viewing position......

[craigfoot]

Do you think a soft plastic tape measure would do the job? I guess its only protecting the tube from the clip? Struggling to find anything else suitable

[Tinker1947]

It needs to be thick enough to rest on your tube ring and go under the tube ring hinge bolt....the clip adjuster will scratch paint off the tube rings,,,,,

[craigfoot]

Hmm I see. . Not sure what would be thick enough but also flexible enough. . I'll keep thinking

[cuivenion]

It's Plastic and it rests on the tube ring to stop the scope from sliding down while its being rotated to get the Focuser to a viewing position......

Whoops.

[craigfoot]

Needs really flexible plastic to bend that much

[craigfoot]

Maybe some plastic trunking will do the job, might give that a try

[craigfoot]

Bit of trunking was just the job. . Thanks for the tip, not had it outside yet, but looking at it the idea seems great and should make things easier

[triton1]

I use embroidery hoops a couple of quid on the bay!

[todd8137]

Sounds like you had normal night to me some times I can nit seem to find any thing ,the electrics play up ,I spill my tea on my books ,I some times drop eps on the obsy floor ,I bang my head on things

But just seeing one dso or globular cluster ,a planet or even my fav the moon always makes it all worth while it takes a few goes to get thing smooth and running right but there's the nights where things never work out the good thing is there's always another night

Pat

[Charic]

craigfoot........For all the same reasons, I keep my EQ  system in the shed! So much more practical and simple with the Dobsonian mount. 

If you can find Polaris visually, align the EQ system with Polaris. I preferred  to point one leg to NORTH for my setup, it makes no difference, as long as declination was correctly set. The declination was set to somewhere near N59° for my needs ( the scales are not that accurate?) then  I manually tweaked the adjusters, until the image was centred in the eyepiece/focuser using the 25mm supplied. I then went about aligning the finderscope to Polaris. Once the Finder and telescope were targeted at Polaris the rest was simple..........or not im my case. The slow-mo controls on my EQ have limit stops, so I had to keep resetting to centre. Then to view another target, meant un-locking, adjusting, then re-locking, then slow-mo adjustments to keep tracking, and maybe have to now rotate the telescope to keep up with the focuser position.

You will master it sooner than later, and all will become second nature. All this messing........ not for me.