If your interested, my website has some closeups of the dolley I made for my
10" LX-200 (it is at the bottom of the page).
http://members.tripod.com/rjemtd/Astronomy.htm

It is very easy to make and cheap.

Good Luck,
Russ

-----Original Message-----
Larry Blair
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 6:33 PM
Subject: [M]: RE: 2nd light with 10in lx200 YAHOOOOOO!!!!


I did spend significant time looking at the details on the moon. I
think my wife got a little iritated with me draging her out to see
things. I have gone from a 4in department store scope to this and it
is really amazing.
Tonight I am working on a dolly to be able to get the scope out in the
driveway in just a few minutes. This weekend getting material to make
a scope saver and a wedge and then get the power supply finished for
my cb245 and and and... Unfortunaltely I get plenty of time to do the
extras because I think the statistics are 300 cloudy nights a year in
Seattle . Oh well I guess it makes the good nights all the better :)
Larry

> >... looking at Venus or Jupiter during the daytime...
>
>Venus is easy but Jupiter is not. Unless you have a really deep blue
>sky Jupiter isn't bright enough to stand out much. I've done it but
>only with careful alignment on Venus or the Moon.
>
>Bright stars during the daytime are possible, too
>
>
>> > with the moon like stadium lights
>
>then look at the Moon! You can spend a lifetime observing details
>there. And the view is never quite the same twice: as the sun angle
>changes the shadows things look very different!


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