New Build telescope alignment laser

Leonardjohn · Aug 13, 2013

Michael Crouse out did himself with this design...

Custom host to fit finder scope rings..

Used to align and show the crowd the direction of next deep space object that we project live at Theater...SCDVA Southern California Desert Video Astronomers

Great job Michael...

Cheers
LJH

Speedy78 · Aug 13, 2013

I remeber seeing this in his visitor messages. Looks really nice. Thats a beast of a telescope as well!

MessiTom · Aug 13, 2013

Very nice. Our club uses scope mounted green lasers for outreach events as well. They are invaluable.

Leonardjohn · Aug 15, 2013

Speedy78 said:
I remeber seeing this in his visitor messages. Looks really nice. Thats a beast of a telescope as well!

Thank you, we have telescopes up to 12 foot long, the beast, 32 inch mirror, Dob..

Also a 6 foot refractor...

Big is better when gathering light...

We are just starting to use lasers on the scopes..

LJH

Speedy78 · Aug 15, 2013

I had a 50 $ one years ago and I could just barely see rings and some moons on saturn. I bet you an see a hell of a lot more with those.

MessiTom · Aug 15, 2013

Most definitely. So far the biggest I've had the pleasure of looking through was a 32". It makes going back to my 17.5" a bit disappointing lol

Leonardjohn · Aug 16, 2013

Speedy78 said:
I had a 50 $ one years ago and I could just barely see rings and some moons on saturn. I bet you an see a hell of a lot more with those.

I just turned the laser off, and this is a 28 second integration, live image of the Trifid nebula...sold out crowd....

The camera is so sensitive to light that the laser must be turned off or the image will be washed out....

Cheers
LJH
SCDVA.org

Speedy78 · Aug 16, 2013

Beautiful. Wish there was something like that around here.

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