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New Lightbridge and House!
This my new Lightbridge and its new home. I have constructed the housing from 3/4" ply and then covered it with a ripple iron skin on the outer walls and a corrugated iron roof. Inside will be coated with styrofoam and the floor has a temporary black plastic covering soon to be overlaid with heavy rubber matting. The scope is on casters so rolls out with ease and is reday in less than a minute. Argo navis on its way.
The nights since purcahse on April 18 have been pretty poor and the few good nights have had a big moon so I have yet to really stretch the scope yet in my locality which is pretty horribly light polluted especially from the coal loader. But despite this the scope has been very good regardless of the moon and poor seeing. The scope has shown up weaknesses in a few of my eyepieces - especially the 2" 26mm that came with it. My Vixen LVW 17mm is superb however. So here's hoping for some good nights soon!
Richard
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