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Re: Lunar Scopes
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Feb 13, 21:48 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Feb 13, 21:48 -0500
There are no alignment adjustment screws in the mounts of all prism scopes of which I am aware. If it's out, there's nothing you can do to bring it back. I bought one about a year ago that was out. There are alignment screws in the Cho-T, err SNO-T. On Feb 13, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > > " With that said, if you do buy another telescope for your > sextant for lunars or other high-precision work, it is an excellent > idea, in my experience, too check that the telescope is properly > aligned when mounted on your sextant. One advantage of the inverting > Russian (Cho-T) scopes is that they can be aligned; most prism > telescopes cannot be aligned." > > Why not? Is it something about the mounting? I'm not sure this is an > issue. > > By the way, a lower-case Cyrillic H is still an H. So it's SNO-T or > better yet SNO-T, but surely not Cho-T. > > -FER > 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. > www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
