[Chaos-l] Manual Setting Circles with a Digital Protractor?

[Mark South]

Thanks Mike!  I'll take a look at this link closely.  Hoping to try  
this out sometime-- if the clouds would go away!
Mark
On Jul 9, 2007, at 9:18 PM, mlemon at bigfoot.com wrote:

>
> http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/ 
> 937949/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1/vc/1
>
> This thread has an attachment with pre-defined degree circles that can
> be taken to Kinkos and blown up to match your base.
>
> Quoting Mark South <md_south at mac.com>:
>
>> Hi, I'm thinking of manually setting circles with my  15" Truss
>> Discovery Dob and I have the Planetarium Program to give me up to the
>> minute Alt/Az readings.(yes, I'm a die-hard starhopper, but I think
>> sometimes it would be fun to do)... Most folks make their own circles
>> for the base Azimuthreadings. Some use a digital inclimator for the
>> Altitude which is quite accurate, but this is based on gravity.
>>
>> see: http://www.amazon.com/M-D-Building-Products-92346-SmartTool/dp/
>> B0000225AL/ref=sr_1_2/002-9920927-7912819?
>> ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1183940825&sr=1-2
>>
>> I was thinking... I would really like to avoid a hand-made circle.
>> I'm lazy.  :)
>>
>> I wonder if a digital protractor would work for the horizontal   
>> Azimuth
>> for a full 360 rotation. Has anyone every tried to do this?
>>
>> Digital Protractors:
>>
>> http://www.smarttooltech.com/category.php?category=1
>>
>> cheaperversion:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000BD7ADQ/
>> ref=s9_asin_title_1-1966_g1/002-9920927-7912819?
>> pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=09E7B98KAHMK16QH2YKQ&p 
>> f_r
>> d_t=101&pf_rd_p=288448601&pf_rd_i=507846
>>
>> Topic about setting circles manually:
>>
>> http://www.homebuiltastronomy.com/ManualDobSettingCircles.htm
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark South
>
>
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