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Subject: Re: LX200: Super Wedge
From: W. Miller
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Sat Mar 16 00:30:30 1996

John Lumpp jrl@spec.specdata.com 14MAR wrote:
... attaching the LX to a custom pier with the lattitude built
into it and not using the wedge might be the way to go.
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John:
This is exactly what I did. For fine adjustment I slip U shaped
spacers (0.001 inch thickness, cut out from lids of tin cans) between
washers and the flat base plate of my homemade pier. First I drift
align on the meridian (add/remove spacers on the LX200 base's
2 bottom 3/8 inch bolts), then I move the RA to 30deg above horizon
and drift align (add/remove spacers on the top 3/8 inch bolt) for an
elevation only adjustment. The alignment accuracy made me real
happy being able to slew to any region of the sky and capture a
target first time on my 8x5 arc min ST7 LX200 12inch. I also use
the ST7 to do the drift alignment. In fact I haven't used an
eyepiece (other than the finder scope) since I got the ST7.

Bill Miller, Los Gatos, CA