8/18/2004
It's here!
My telescope arrived today! Two big boxes were waiting in the foyer when I got home today.

I tore the boxes open, and found more boxes. So I opened them. I pulled out the tripod and the telescope itself, along with other bits and pieces. Soon, however, I was sweating. Where are the eyepieces? I kinda expected them to be in the box with the telescope. Turns out they were in the last box I opened. Whew!
It wasn't that hard to put together. I haven't put the electric drives in the mount yet, but everything else is together without anything broken. I also aligned the spotting scope and collimated the reflector. The only real problem was trying to figure out the collimation of the primary mirror: the back of the telescope had to come off, and half of the screws were to lock the adjustment, and the other half were for the adjustment itself. Once I figured it out, it was easy.
I would like to imagine I can try it out tonight, but it's clouding over. Boo hiss.

I tore the boxes open, and found more boxes. So I opened them. I pulled out the tripod and the telescope itself, along with other bits and pieces. Soon, however, I was sweating. Where are the eyepieces? I kinda expected them to be in the box with the telescope. Turns out they were in the last box I opened. Whew!
It wasn't that hard to put together. I haven't put the electric drives in the mount yet, but everything else is together without anything broken. I also aligned the spotting scope and collimated the reflector. The only real problem was trying to figure out the collimation of the primary mirror: the back of the telescope had to come off, and half of the screws were to lock the adjustment, and the other half were for the adjustment itself. Once I figured it out, it was easy.
I would like to imagine I can try it out tonight, but it's clouding over. Boo hiss.


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