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Old 01-06-2012, 02:47 PM
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mithrandir (Andrew)
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Brent, I grabbed a piece of Al about 250mm long and 25mm wide, bent about 25mm of the ends up at 90 deg, drilled a hole in one of them and lined it up using one of the dovetails with the hole towards the sun. A bit of masking tape would hold it in place.

Once the image of the sun fell on the other bent up end it was close enough to get the sun in the FOV. I centred the sun in the eyepiece and used a felt pen to put a dot on the strip where the sun image now appeared.

Cheap as.
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