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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

   

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