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Tag: finderscope

February 20, 2018: Dark Site Disappointment and Mount Mastery

Ugh.  Just ugh. As the eight long-time readers of this blog may remember (although they probably won’t), one of my absolute pet bugaboos is the complete and utter inability of weather forecasts to get it right.  They just can’t.  Not even frickin’ close.  But they give the illusion that they can, this illusion of supreme […]

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December 6, 2014: Upgrading the Mak, Part 2 – finderscope, high-powered eyepieces

The Mak comes with what’s called a red-dot finder.  This is a small – and inexpensive – device that projects a small red dot onto a clear flat surface through which you can see the sky behind it.  You use the RDF to align what you see in the sky with what’s seen in the […]

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