New Build telescope alignment laser

[Leonardjohn]

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]

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

 

[MessiTom]

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

 

[Leonardjohn]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Beautiful. Wish there was something like that around here.