Re: [APML] Need Help With Meade 9mm Guiding Eyepiece

["Alson Wong" <alsonwong@earthlink.net>]

A simple, low-tech solution to the excessive LED brightness is to place a
bit of tissue/Kleenex in front of the LED before threading it back in place.
This works well for me.
--
Alson Wong
Riverside Astronomical Society
  http://www.rivastro.org/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert Katzung" <katzung1@attbi.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Need Help With Meade 9mm Guiding Eyepiece


> If Mike's Meade EP is like the corded one I used to use, the lowest
> brightness available with the keypad brightness control is still much too
> bright. I ended up cutting off the cord, and soldering the wires via a
> RadioShack 10K rheostat to a 3 volt photo battery. Kludgy but worked much
> better for faint stars. Then I switched to an Orion cordless and that
works
> fine as is.
> Bert
>
> Bert Katzung
> katzung1@attbi.com
> www.astronomy-images.com




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