A couple of pics of my setting circles, revealing the depth of my woodworking skills, a lick of paint will fix it!
I hope to spend more time looking through the scope than at it, and who can tell in the dark anyway!
The pics are a day late, but when the wife points to the list of jobs to be done I know what my priorities are!
Azimuth circle is 460mm in diameter. Altitude circle is 230mm in diameter.
The azimuth circle can be adjusted within a range of about 20 degrees, so scope only has to be roughly aligned with North before leveling. Altitude is adjustable over a range of 360 degrees!
Verniers are mounted temporarily until I'm 100% happy with them, refinements will come in time.
Verniers allow reading of angles to an accuracy of less than 6 arc minutes.
In the pics, Azimuth reads 318 degrees 42 min. Altitude reads 11 degress 18 min. Plenty accurate enough.
I'm thinking of getting rid of the LED lights on the verniers, using my red flash light works just fine.
But the LED lights on the base board stay, they stop the grand kids kicking the scope!
Cheers
Chris