Re: [APML]: G11-polar-alignment

["Tom Krajci" <krajcit@det5wg57.barksdale.af.mil>]

> From:          "A. Schlinghoff" <A.Schlinghoff@uni-koeln.de>

> I have a question about polar aligning the G11 mount with the polar
> alignment scope I bought with the mount (I think its a Celestron.
> My problem is that I don't have any description for it, so I had to
> figure out by trial and error. i am still not 100% sure that the way I
> place Polaris is right. Of course there Is a marker indicating the
> position of Polaris and there is a marker indicating the position of a
> "second star". Can anyone please tell me which is the correct second
> star and how positions change over years. 

Hi Axel,

I don't have a star chart handy, but the second star is in the handle 
of Ursa Minor/Little Dipper. If I recall correctly it's the second 
handle star if you consider Polaris the first handle star.  If you 
have Sky Atlas 2000 or other similar star chart you should be able to 
look at the reticle and see that this makes sense - everything should 
line up compared to the chart, including the directions to the Big 
Dipper and Cassiopea (sp?).

Tom Krajci

PS.  Is there a heat wave in Germany right now?

Capt Tom Krajci
B-52 Intelligence Officer
"In God we trust, all others we monitor!"
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