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    Re: Finding stars in daylight
    From: John D. Howard
    Date: 2019 Jul 13, 09:59 -0700

    Gary,

    When you said that as long as the axis of your level is vertical it does not matter about the axis of the telescope - well, I agree if and only if the axis of the telescope is perpendicular with the plane of rotation of the vertical axis.

    Consider a telescope that the vertical axis is straight up but the telescope axis is tilted slightly left down.  As long as you take azimuths at zero elevation the all azimuths are good.  Now point the telescope south and start raising the elevation.  Because the left side of the telescope axis is low as you go up in elevation the scope will point more and more east. 

    The adjustment of a surveyor's transit is here: 

    https://books.google.com/books?id=cY5CAQAAMAAJ
     
        pages 86 - 90    On page 90 it talks about the importance of adjustment three (  the telescope axis ) when finding the azimuth of stars.
    John H.    41N 100W
                                                                                                                                                                                          
       
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