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Originally Posted by raymo
There are several ways of measuring your way around space. A good place to begin if you want accuracy, is to get an eyepiece with a graduated
reticle [ a bit like a scope on a rifle]. If you choose a couple of sky
objects of known diameter, you can work out pretty easily the angular
distance represented per graduation. This will vary of course with the
instrument with which you are using the eyepiece. If you use the eyepiece with a 2x barlow lens, then of course the angular distance will
double. You can use the eyepiece with your finderscope[if it will accept it]
to get a much larger field of view[typically 4 to 5 degrees], but again you would have to ascertain what each graduation represents.
Hope this helped
raymo
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Thanks raymo. So do most people use a reticle then? - I suppose that is most useful for smaller increments of measurement.