I have used the non-digital setting circles on my LX-50 to find Venus in
daylight (by aligning on the sun, then offsetting by the appropriate RA &
Dec. They worked just fine for that. Since I bought a Magellan II, I've
never used them though.

Grant Blair
Moorestown, NJ


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> Subject: [M]: [M] "Analog" Setting Circles
> Date: Sunday, January 04, 1998 1:49 PM
>
> Greetings All:
>
> On the LX10, 50, etc., anybody out there use "analog" setting
circles...i.e.,
> get a good alignment on the pole star, then use declination/right
acension
> from a star atlas to navigate?
>
> I've not had luck doing this on my ETX (part of the problem, as Randy
pointed
> out, was the fact that I haven't been able to get a bead on Polaris
yet!), but
> I want to make sure I'll be able to do this when I do get a good sighting
> (after which I'll mark the ground somehow to always be able to set my
tripod
> again) and when I "upgrade" to one of the ETX's "big brothers".
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Fred Kiesche

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