From: mjc5{at}psu.edu
To: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: mjc5{at}psu.edu


Jack Schmidling wrote:

>After pondering that for years and doing nothing, it occurred to me that it
>would be far easier to simply remote manual adjustment than to motorize it
>and no particular advantage to getting wires involved.
>
>Once I started thinking this way, it was a day or two to complete the
>project and I do know how I ever lived without it.  My wife likes it too.
>The only way I could collimate my 16" in a reasonable amount of time was to
>have her run the wrench while I looked through the eyepiece.  I now tweek
>the collimation every time I change the position of the scope and it only
>takes seconds.

        Thanks for the alternative idea, Jack! I'll sit back and chew
on that one for a while too. I won't be doing any significant ATM work
until Mars is a lot further away. 8^)

        ...and I'm not so sleep deprived.

        - Mike -
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