telescope owner resources
Science, Astronomy, Amateur, Telescope Owner Resources
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 - Beginner's advice and articles, and telescope, eyepiece and accessory reviews.
- Basics, observing, tips, photo basics, glossaries, and links.
- Telescope techniques and links.
- Consists of two steps: aiming the eyepiece axis at the center of the primary, and aiming the primary at the center of the eyepiece.
- Selection depends on eyesight, telescope's aperture and optical design, atmospheric conditions, and type and size of the object being viewed.
- Equipment information, alignment tips, images, planet finder, ham radio/WB9DLC, and links.
- Reviews, knowledgebase, gallery, FAQ, message forum, classifieds, store, and links.
- Magazine which aims to fill the gap left by the regular printed magazines.
- Guides, how to's, and tips.
- Fun stuff, projects, downloads, and links.
- Seven tips on a wide variety of topics.
- A resource and links page.
- Equipment and accessories, and observing through images and books.
- Questions on how important the answers are to the performance of the instrument.
- Balancing the declination axis and the right ascension axis, aligning to north star, and using mount to locate objects.
- A place of discussion for users and owners.
- Intended to guide a inexperienced telescope user through a rough collimation process in which expensive additional tools are not required to obtain a workable collimation.
- Contains practicals, mounts, eyepiece cases, dew shields, ATM's, star charts, and mini's.
- An article entitled: A Professional Method for Cleaning Optics by Robert Ariail.
- An article by Dave Scherping.
- Finding a way through the maze of ads, catalogs, claims and counter claims about which is best or the least expensive.
- Methods to correct the problems that arise when trying to properly polar align.
- The resource website for the LX200, LX90, LX50, LXD55, Starfinder, and ETX telescopes, and Pictor CCD cameras and imaging software.
- Users guide, observer list, downloads, pc control, firmware, odds and ends, equipment reviews alignment guides, tracking test, and links.
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