[Chaos-l] Farrington observing report

[walter fowler]

I bought the Rigel Quickfinder to use on a C8 a few years ago.  It's much
more vertically oriented compared to the Telrad so is easy to fit on a
"smaller scope" -  did you mean a C11 or is it really 11 cm?  Anyway, the
Rigel finder worked fine and was easy to use.  Walter

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Jon Stewart-Taylor
<joncst at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Hi all.  Jorge Ramirez was kind enough to drive for an expedition to
> Farrington on Friday. The sky was beautifully clear and reasonably
> transparent, although the  seeing was a bit shaky at times.  Most amazing of
> all (and those of you who've observed at Farrington will understand what i
> mean) only one car drove out, and no cars drove in!  I didn't need to set up
> the headlight filter for the first time in ages.  It was especially
> surprising, given that it was so much warmer than it has been the last few
> weeks: i was expecting to suffer lots of late-night fishermens.
>
> We were there from about 7:00 until nearly 11. The tourist traps were very
> nice indeed.  The Andromeda Galaxy and Orion Nebula have never looked better
> from Farrington than last night.  M35 was beautiful, and M41 was very nice
> even though it was still a bit low in the sky.  I also managed to collect
> another 5 doubles towards the AL double-star award: only about 35 more to
> go.  Mars is fairly large, but the questionable seeing made it boil quite a
> bit, especially given it started fairly low.  I thought i saw a dark patch
> at the southern edge, but that might have been averted imagination.
>
> Jorge was having some trouble aligning the unit-power finder that came with
> his 11 cm Celestron.  I suggested he replace it with a Real Unit Power
> Finder.  For a small scope, a Telrad is probably just too big, so i was
> thinking of the Rigel Quickfinder.  Anybody have any experience with these?
>  Any other suggestions for a retro-fit unit-power finder to go on a small
> scope?
>
> Thanks.
>
> J.
>
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