dust off the old telescope

this weekend was pretty good. friday and saturday we pulled down the telescope. it has not been used in 4 years and i was wondering if i could even put it together.

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it worked out pretty good though.









it is a celestron telescope. it is similiar to the C6-NHD, part of the celestron advanced series. i hacked the viewfinder to quadruple the capable magnification. fine tuning the focus was painful because the range of motion exceeded the units needed to really get what i wanted.







no matter, the girls got see the moon like they have never seen before. i got some pictures of the moon as best i could.





i could pick up some debris and other interesting stuff. i will tweak it some more and get some new pics up after i do.