aligning bushnell northstar

[vicki3462 (Vicki)]

Hi, I am a total newby I purchased a Bushnell Northstar 788840 to use at a country property near Kempsey NSW but I don't know any stars on the list to align it to. Can anyone help please.
thanks,
Vicki

[mozzie (Peter)]

Originally Posted by vicki3462

Hi, I am a total newby I purchased a Bushnell Northstar 788840 to use at a country property near Kempsey NSW but I don't know any stars on the list to align it to. Can anyone help please.
thanks,
Vicki

hi vicki in sydney theres astronomy shops they sell star disks that you can rotate through out the year to give you the same stars in the sky as you are looking at, you are then able to pick out the brightess ones for your aligning

hope this helps

[ColHut (Colin)]

You could download Cartes du ciel or Stellarium and set them up for your location. Then you can see which stars on the list will be visible. I manually wrote out the list as there were not that many really. I think I had one similar to yours (see reviews here http://www.iceinspace.com.au/41-362-0-0-1-0.html).

Cartes du Ciel:
http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
Stellarium
http://www.stellarium.org/

Also a planisphere might be useful.

If yours is similar to mine and you need a hand over the net let me know.

regards

[ColHut (Colin)]

I see yours is the Maksutov-Cassegrain version.

Good luck.

regards

[vicki3462 (Vicki)]

Thanks everyone for the help. I will try to put your help into practice.
Thanks again.
Vicki

[ColHut (Colin)]

Good luck

cheers