{"id":8003,"date":"2018-02-13T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T13:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=8003"},"modified":"2018-02-13T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T13:37:32","slug":"new-mount-approaching-first-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2018\/02\/new-mount-approaching-first-light\/","title":{"rendered":"New mount approaching first light."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_060952crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_060952crop-299x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_060952crop-299x270.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_060952crop-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_060952crop-768x693.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_060952crop-1023x923.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small dovetail does the trick in attaching the Meade DS90 Optical Tube Assembly (OTA) to the Meade mount.  A layer of cork is between the ring and the dovetail to prevent motion&#8230; the metal on metal tended to move a little.  When tightening the 1\/4&#215;20 bolt into the aluminum thread, one never wants to tighten too much&#8230; aluminum has a tendency to strip.  This is the scope that was cleaned earlier<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XhrlK7rzyg\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/cloudno-astrodisassemble\/\">cloud=no astro=disassemble!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;cloud=no astro=disassemble!&#8221; &#8212; Thoughts from Starlight Cascade\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/cloudno-astrodisassemble\/embed\/#?secret=CZetxCMDja#?secret=XhrlK7rzyg\" data-secret=\"XhrlK7rzyg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That small dovetail allowed us to move the 11&#8243; dovetail over to the Celestron scope (also cleaned earlier).  Later on these will go outside for testing, as they will be easily interchangable on the mount.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TZDzlISsS5\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/celestron-disassemble\/\">Celestron &#8211; disassemble<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Celestron &#8211; disassemble&#8221; &#8212; Thoughts from Starlight Cascade\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/celestron-disassemble\/embed\/#?secret=IQtBzAlx7E#?secret=TZDzlISsS5\" data-secret=\"TZDzlISsS5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_061135crop2000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_061135crop2000-299x106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_061135crop2000-299x106.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_061135crop2000-150x53.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_061135crop2000-768x273.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_061135crop2000-1023x364.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180212_061135crop2000.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis one was longer and had two mounting rings.  These are positioned roughly around the balance point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small dovetail does the trick in attaching the Meade DS90 Optical Tube Assembly (OTA) to the Meade mount. A layer of cork is between the ring and the dovetail to prevent motion&#8230; the metal on metal tended to move a little. When tightening the 1\/4&#215;20 bolt into the aluminum thread, one never wants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8008,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions\/8008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}