Unfortunately,
I’m writing this over a month later because I guess I never actually wrote this
one. Let’s see what I can remember.
I got the new CGE Pro mount built, although
lifting the mount head onto the equatorial section was very difficult. So the
altitude adjustment works in two segments: less than 40 latitude, and greater
than 40 latitude. You have to move a
piece in order to switch between the two.
We are at 39 degrees, so you’d think I could leave it on the less than
40 mode, but nope. I wasn’t quite able
to reach the all-star polar alignment star, nor was I able to reach Polaris
just doing it that way. It was close,
but not quite, and I couldn’t turn the knob any further (it got super tight
near the end). But I didn’t want to
switch into the other mode since I would be in Texas the next week, so I
decided to see how well I could do not polar aligned just with guiding. That didn’t work out so well. But it was worth a shot! And I made sure everything was able to talk
to each other, and figured out how to build everything. So it was still a fruitful trip. And then I just left all the boxes in the car
because it would have been too much of a pain in the butt to haul them back
upstairs, just to haul them back down on Thursday night.
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