Friday, March 13, 2020

How To Use an Equatorial Telescope


Last Wednesday night's talk at the astronomy club was about different ways of finding your way around the sky.  This is Dave Bush, the Director of the Vanderbilt Planetarium, and he is demonstrating how to use a telescope on an Equatorial Mount.  These mounts seem complicated at first and are a bit difficult to understand.  Dave did a great job of explaining how they work.

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