From: "Dwight K. Elvey" 
To: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: "Dwight K. Elvey" 


>From: "Mel Bartels" 
>
>>>> Am I nuts, or naive, or both? Comments, advice and recommendations
>welcome.
>
>I think a 16 inch binoc would be wonderful.  If I were grinding/building the
>scope, I'd worry as much about the mechanics and alignment as the actual
>grinding.
>
>Mel Bartels
>

Hi
 Of course your nuts but I agree with Mel. Keeping
two telescopes pointed to within a few hundredths of a degree is an
interesting problem.
 One of the biggest trouble I have at our viewing
nights is to convince those that "Know what they are doing" not
to grab the ends of the OTA's and use only the handle provided. Systems
like Bruce Sayre's may be able to handle this but ours is gravity located
and not locked like his. Dwight

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