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Polar aligning professional scopes weighing many tons?
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09-09-2016, 12:09 PM
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This is how the Yale-Columbia 26" refractor was aligned at Mt Stromlo
There are adjustment bolts at both top and bottom cradles for fine tuning both altitude and azimuth but the range was minimal so the plates had to be near perfect from the start.
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