Telescope Owner Resources Amateur Astronomy
Telescope Owner Resources Amateur Astronomy
Telescope Owner Resources
This category deals with all aspects of owning and using an amateur telescope. It looks at getting the most out of your existing telescope and what accessories might be needed.
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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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